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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Composition is the ability to do what, according to Locke?

2. What does Locke say the mind is before it has experiences?

3. Who proposed the notion that knowledge begins in doubt?

4. How does Locke describe reflection?

5. What are modes, according to Locke?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Locke define practical principles?

2. Describe the two kinds of ideas Locke describes.

3. How does Locke define discerning?

4. What arguments does Locke make against Descartes' philosophy?

5. What example does Locke use of natural principles?

6. What does Locke say about sensations experienced in the womb?

7. What does Locke mean when he says that the mind is a blank slate?

8. In what way is knowledge limited, according to Locke?

9. How does Locke say ideas come to us?

10. How does Locke use the concept of number in his discussion of primary qualities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Locke speculates that desire is unhappiness in the absence of previous delight--how does he handle the question of original experience, and how could his philosophy respond to the doctrine of original sin?

Essay Topic 2

Which was more important in Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," the actual terminology Locke uses for breaking knowledge down into parts, or the concept that epistemology liberates people from the concepts of instinctual knowledge of concepts like right and wrong?

Essay Topic 3

To what degree is this book internally consistent? How much does it follow the rules it lays out?

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