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Locke's Attack on Innate Knowledge
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
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6 No doubt Locke chose to develop his criticisms against such principles first, before applying them to moral and religious principles, (a) because they seemed to be particularly good candidates for innateness, (b) because his criticisms might be more impartially considered when deployed against abstract principles.
7 Essay, I, ii, 3Google Scholar. All references are to the Everyman edition (Dent, 1961) edited by J. W. Yolton. All italics are reproduced from the text.
8 I, ii, 4.
9 I, ii, 5.
10 I, ii, 5.
11 I, ii, 5.
12 I, iii, 1–2.
13 I, iii, 9–13.
14 I, iv, 1–8.
15 I, ii, 7.
16 I, iii, 27.
17 Op. cit., Ch. II.
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24 I, ii, 1.
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26 See also I, iv, 12 and 22.
27 I, iv, 13.