John Locke Research Paper

John Locke states that we can acquire knowledge via sense perceptions even though this kind of knowledge is not like that of demonstration. He argues this through the use of his readings and his quotations. They accurately represent what he thinks and how he goes about experimenting this idea. John Locke explains knowledge into two different types and gives examples to support these kinds of knowledge. His first point isintuitive knowledge. His second point is demonstrative knowledge. Locke’s point in the theory of knowledge of epistemology is based on the idea that all of our knowledge of the world comes to us through our experiences (the one exception he makes is for the existence of God). If one is to know, with certainty, of the existence of the external world, it must be through that person’s experience. There are two ways in which knowledge comes to us. The first is immediately given to us through our experiences, and the second is that which we infer as explanations for what is immediately given to us. The first knowledge, intuitive knowledge, can get us much closer to certainty and clarity than the second. However, Locke has already stated that only ideas are ever presented to the mind, it is only through the

We see how intuitive and demonstrative are certain types of our knowledge, whatever falls short of them is faith or opinion, not knowledge. In our sensory knowledge, we have primary and secondary qualities that we use to perceive what we want. Sensitive knowledge goes no further than the existence of things present to the senses and is the most narrow kind of knowledge. One example Locke uses is fire. If people who question the existence of fire, Locke would state that some objects we perceive cause pain while others cause pleasure. It is then seen that, if you sense that feeling it is