Problem
A. The idea is the object of thinking.
a. What is the "received" doctrine concerning our ideas?
b. To what does Locke appeal in trying to gather where the ideas come from?
B. All ideas come from sensation or reflection. -
a. What does Locke suppose the mind to be?
b. According to Locke, where do our ideas come from?
c. According to Locke, what are the foundations of all thinking?
C. The object of sensation is one source of ideas.
a. List the ideas that we have from our senses.
b. What does he mean by "sensation"?
D. The operations of our minds are the other source of them.
a. What is the second "fountain" of ideas?
b. List the examples of this fountain.
c. What is "reflection" for Locke?
E. All our ideas are of specific one or the other of these.
a. What ideas do the external objects furnish our minds? And, what ideas does the mind furnish?
b. According to Locke, where do all our ideas come from?
F. Observable in children.
a. According to Locke, is a child inborn with specific ideas?
b. Locke says, " if a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he was a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster or a pine-apple has of those particular relishes." Do you agree? Why or why not?
G. Men are differently furnished with these according to the different objects they converse with.
a. Locke says that human beings possess the different and different amount of ideas. How does he account for this?
H. Division of simple ideas.
a. List the four ways in which ideas are formed, according to Locke.
b. List some ideas that come from one sense.
c. Does Locke think that we have names for what he calls all the simple ideas stemming from our senses? Why not?