This book criticizes the Peripatetic school for "affected obscurity" in muddying the ordinary meanings of words in its chapter "
This book criticizes the Peripatetic school for "affected obscurity" in muddying the ordinary meanings of words in its chapter "On the Abuse of Words." This book discusses a problem posed by William Molyneux about whether a blind man given the ability to see could distinguish objects on sight. It contends that species and genus terms refer to nominal rather than real essences. It uses the story of "The Prince and the Cobbler" to illustrate a view of personal identity as unity of consciousness. This book argues that complex ideas, like modes and relations, are built out of simple ideas, and it uses light falling on porphyry to illustrate the distinction between primary and secondary qualities. A chapter-by-chapter refutation of it by Gottfried Leibniz represents this work's author as Theophilus. For 10 points, name this 1689 work by John Locke which rejects innate ideas and posits that the human mind at birth is a tabula rasa.
This book criticizes the Peripatetic school for "affected obscurity" in muddying the ordinary meanings of words in its chapter "
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding