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"English"
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Work title:
"An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"For, though he that contemplates the Operations of his Mind, cannot but have plain and clear Ideas of them; yet unless he turn his Thoughts that way, and considers them attentively, he will no more have clear and distinct Ideas of all the Operations of his Mind, and all that may be observed ther...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"By which way one may prove any thing, and it is but supposing that all watches, whilst the balance beats, think; and it is sufficiently proved, and past doubt, that my watch thought all last night."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)