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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. How does Locke say the concept of innate knowledge ultimately fails?

2. What does reflection create ideas out of?

3. What does Locke use an example to illustrate mode?

4. Whose understanding measures whether an idea is innate, according to Locke?

5. What does Locke use as an example of abstraction?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Locke define practical principles?

2. What does Locke say happens if two people have the same idea about a thing?

3. Describe Locke's account of the primary and secondary qualities of things.

4. How is duration developed from simple ideas, according to Locke?

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

6. What is the difference between natural principles and innate principles?

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

8. How does Locke define abstraction?

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

10. What is the difference between sensation and reflection, in Locke's account?

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

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence?

Essay Topic 3

Locke says that truth is a property of propositions, which take the form of sentences. Why are sentences necessary for truth? What makes sentences different than words alone? What is it about the unique arrangement of subject, verb and object that makes truth possible?

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