An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay: Concerning Human Understanding (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John Locke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267671563 ISBN 13: 9780267671564

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover a focused guide to how we know what we know.

This edition distills the core ideas from a landmark work on human understanding, exploring how thoughts become knowledge and how language shapes our view of the world.

From ideas and signs to the practical workings of speech, the book surveys the tools we use to think and communicate. It examines how words capture or miss meaning, and why our language can both illuminate and mislead. Readers will see how arguments are built, how probability guides belief, and how the mind divides the sciences to map human knowledge.

• How ideas form and how signs (words) convey meaning
• The different uses and abuses of language in everyday life and philosophy
• How knowledge, truth, and probability are analyzed and tested
• The structure and division of the sciences as a map of human understanding

Ideal for readers who want a clear, accessible entry into epistemology and the philosophy of language, with practical insight into how we think, reason, and communicate.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0267671563
• ISBN 13: 9780267671564
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278