Locke, Ayers, and Abstraction

Berkeley famously took Locke’s account of abstraction to be a process of mental separation that creates incomplete ideas which represent many individuals. A number of scholars have more recently tried to rehabilitate Locke’s theory of abstraction and save it from Berkeley’s criticisms. The mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jonathan Walmsley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Libraries, The University of Western Ontario 2014-12-01
Series:Locke Studies
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Online Access:https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/locke/article/view/708