"[Locke] will allow no idea innate but such as a man brings coined in his mind like a shilling."
— King, William (1650-1729)
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Date
October 15, 1692
Metaphor
"[Locke] will allow no idea innate but such as a man brings coined in his mind like a shilling."
Metaphor in Context
Chap:4
This chapter is made up of the same with the former. he will allow no idea innate but such as a man brings coined in his mind like a shilling. So that an innate idea is an actuall thought with him which no body, that I know of, ever said. all that any one means by an innate idea is a thought that the natural frame of the mind and circumstances in which God and nature has placed us. will bring into our minds, if we do not do violence to our minds to keep it out. I woud fain se one good argument to prove that there are no such thoughts in our minds. and what he will make of thinking without supposing some such?
(p. 535)
This chapter is made up of the same with the former. he will allow no idea innate but such as a man brings coined in his mind like a shilling. So that an innate idea is an actuall thought with him which no body, that I know of, ever said. all that any one means by an innate idea is a thought that the natural frame of the mind and circumstances in which God and nature has placed us. will bring into our minds, if we do not do violence to our minds to keep it out. I woud fain se one good argument to prove that there are no such thoughts in our minds. and what he will make of thinking without supposing some such?
(p. 535)
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Provenance
Reading John O'Brien's "John Locke, Desire, and the Epistemology of Money." British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15:4 (2007): 685-708. p. 697.
Citation
"William King to John Locke," The Correspondence of John Locke ed. E. S. de Beer, 8 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979). IV, p. 535. <Link>
Date of Entry
02/21/2009
Date of Review
04/17/2012
