The fifth edition of this book includes passages from its author's correspondence with Bishop Stillingfleet, who argued that the "dualism" of this book was dangerous to Christianity.
The fifth edition of this book includes passages from its author's correspondence with Bishop Stillingfleet, who argued that the "dualism" of this book was dangerous to Christianity. This book refutes the belief that "our whole being" is but the "deluding appearances of a long dream" by suggesting that "our dreamer" put his hand "into a glass furnace" so that he could be "waked into a certainty." Its author suggests that he is an under-laborer "removing some of the rubbish, that lies in the way of knowledge" in its "Epistle to the Reader." This book resolves the "wholemystery of genera and species" using nothing more than "nominal essences" in its third part, "Of Words." It uses the example of a piece of porphyry refracting light to distinguish between complex and simple ideas. For 10 points, name this book which posits that the human mind is a tabula rasa at birth, which was written by John Locke.
The fifth edition of this book includes passages from its author's correspondence with Bishop Stillingfleet, who argued that the "dualism" of this book was dangerous to Christianity.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding