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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 1. Self as Indeterminate

12809	Nothing about me is essential [Locke]
	Full Idea: 'Tis necessary for me to be as I am; God and Nature has made me so: but there is nothing I have is essential to me.
	From: John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 3.06.04)
	A reaction: This is the aspect of Locke's critique of essentialism which Leibniz particularly disliked. Locke's view still has plenty of defenders, but I take it to be wrong, and Pinker seems to suggest that empirical research is beginning to agree with me.