Some Possible Corruptions in the Text of Locke's Essay
The Essay concerning Human Understanding went through no fewer than four editions in Locke’s lifetime, with another that incorporated some further input from him published in 1706, two years after his death. It might, therefore, seem reasonable to suppose that although printing errors undoubt...
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The Essay concerning Human Understanding went through no fewer than four editions in Locke’s lifetime, with another that incorporated some further input from him published in 1706, two years after his death. It might, therefore, seem reasonable to suppose that although printing errors undoubtedly occurred in the earlier editions (especially the first), by the time the fifth edition was published all of them would have been located and corrected. In his edition of the Essay,1 Peter Nidditch made rather more than twenty editorial changes, but all of them are very minor: most involve alteration of punctuation or capitalisation, and the only one that introduces a substantive change is the alteration of the plural ‘Ideas’ to the singular ‘Idea’ in II. xvi. 3 (205.20; all the references in this form given below are to the page- and line-numbers in Nidditch’s edition).
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