Talk:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

message: This article is in need of editing. There are several grammatical errors but, worse, some sections read as if they were copied verbatim from another source but not cited. The section on knowledge reads in the first person and seems to make specific claims instead of presenting unbiased information.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.176.165.45 (talk • contribs).
:Please do not accuse someone of plagiarism until you have the source(s) from which they copied. I found this page remarkably informative and well-written. Moreover, the first-person examples are explanatory material that would greatly assist the general reader in understanding Locke--they are not the author's POV on Locke. I felt that the previous comment was harsh and unnecessary. Awadewit 20:42, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: someone's taken out the material in books III and IV to put in jet life.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.82.187.222 (talk) 19:51, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  vandalized. 

message: I've started filling in these sections.  Any comments/help would be appreciated.
I'm using Locke's Works, Vol 1, 2nd Edition, 1722, London (Taylor) edition.  Gacggt (talk) 17:11, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books 3 and 4 

message: There are very few citations in this article - or even quotes from the work. Myrvin (talk) 10:45, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: I took out
: A 17th century Latin translation Philosophus Autodidactus (published by Edward Pococke) of the Arabic philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan by the 12th century Andalusian-Islamic philosopher and novelist Ibn Tufail (known as "Abubacer" or "Ebn Tophail" in the West) had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Ibn Tufail demonstrated the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment through Hayy ibn Yaqzan in which he depicted the development of the mind of a feral child "from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society" on a desert island, through experience alone.G. A. Russell (1994), The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England, pp. 224-262, Brill Publishers, .
partly because picking out just this one influence is very odd, partly because it belongs in the Locke article, not here, and partly because the Locke article has a whole long list of "influenced by" starting with Plato William M. Connolley (talk) 17:48, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences? 

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message: The quote in Book II's section is actually in Book IV (section 6). Please either move this into book IV or clarify that Book II is simply laying the foundation for this conclusion later. "Thus, from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing being; which whether any one will please to call God, it matters not!"
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thread_title:  quote from book IV in book II section