Philosophy 2202F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aqua Regia, Prima Facie
17 Apr 2019
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This, therefore, being my purpose to enquire into the original, certainty, and extent of humane. Knowledge; together, with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent (i. i. 2) In (iv. i) and (iv. ii), locke presents his account of knowledge. In (iv. iii) and (iv. iv), locke argues that our knowledge is very limited in scope. In (iv. xv) and (iv. xvi), locke presents an account of mere probable opinion. Roughly put, to know is to be certain that something is the case. In (iv. i), locke gives his account of what exactly is involved when we are certain about something. Since the mind in all its thoughts and reasonings has no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them (iv. i. 1) Knowledge seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the agreement, or disagreement of any two of our ideas (iv. i. 2)
