1 Locke ’ s Problem Concerning Perceptual Error

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  • Antonia LoLordo
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We shall see what Locke means by this in more detail below, but a brief note is sufficient to show that there is a prima facie conflict. Locke explains that “[w]henever the Mind refers any of its Ideas to any things extraneous to them, they are then capable to be called true or false ... the Mind in such a reference makes a tacit Supposition of their Conformity to that Thing” (2.32.2). That is, an

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تاریخ انتشار 2006