PHIL 111 Lecture Notes - Solidity, Direct And Indirect Realism, Heredity
27 Feb 2014
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To understand locke, we have to understand three features of his representationalist theory: the perceiving agent, the intermediary idea, and the object being perceived. In i. i. 8 locke writes: i must here in the entrance beg pardon of my reader, for the frequent use of the. Word idea, which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term, which serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a. An idea is whatever is before the mind when the mind thinks. In another passage, locke says: whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of. Perception, thought or understanding - that is an idea (ii. viii. 8) For several decades, geneticists believed in genes but knew nothing of their nature: locke"s repeated use of whatsoever sounds like that. He writes that ideas are produced in us by the operation of insensible particles on our.
