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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding examines how ideas arise and what they warrant. Its account of qualities and substance acknowledges limits to our knowledge of bodies.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 50
Ideas, experience and a material world
Locke traces ideas to experience and distinguishes primary from secondary qualities; Berkeley challenges the material substance supposed to bear them. What does experience warrant about the objects we encounter?