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12502 | Comparisons boil down to simple elements of sensation or reflection [Locke] |
Full Idea: All comparisons terminate in, and are concerned about those simple ideas, either of sensation or reflection; which I think to be the whole material of all our knowledge. | |
From: John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 2.25.09) | |
A reaction: This seems to be an ancestor of logical atomism. Hume is inclined to make his 'atoms' strictly empirical (as 'impressions'), but Locke also allows simples of reflection, which may be a priori conceptual atoms. |