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Full Idea
The mind has no power to produce any simple idea.
Gist of Idea
The mind cannot produce simple ideas
Source
John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 2.31.02)
Book Ref
Locke,John: 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding', ed/tr. Nidditch,P.H. [OUP 1979], p.375
A Reaction
These must all come from experience, implying to common empirical view (spelled out better by Hume) that that a priori concerns only combinations of ideas which we already possess. The 'conceptual' notion of a priori is consistent with this.
12518 | The mind cannot produce simple ideas [Locke] |
5567 | A priori the understanding can only anticipate possible experiences [Kant] |
16914 | A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility [Kant] |
16909 | Logic is a priori because we cannot think illogically [Wittgenstein] |
12416 | We have some self-knowledge a priori, such as knowledge of our own existence [Kitcher] |
9339 | A priori knowledge (e.g. classical logic) may derive from the innate structure of our minds [Horwich] |
3913 | Maybe imagination is the source of a priori justification [Casullo] |