The chapter "Of Identity and Diversity" hypothesizes a prince whose soul enters the body of a cobbler, while the author argues that ideas discovered through reason cannot be innate in the first book.
This work is mentioned and parodied just before the housemaid Dolly delivers a handjob in Tristram Shandy. In the chapter "Of Particles," the author points out the problems of defining the word "but," and elsewhere he claims that the signification of words is "perfectly arbitrary." The chapter "Of Identity and Diversity" hypothesizes a prince whose soul enters the body of a cobbler, while the author argues that ideas discovered through reason cannot be innate in the first book. The second book, "Of Ideas," begins by asking how the mind comes to be furnished, and features the distinction between primary and secondary qualities.  FTP, name this epistemological work by John Locke.
This work is mentioned and parodied just before the housemaid Dolly delivers a handjob in Tristram Shandy.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding