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Locke on Ideas
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Locke on Ideas
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Claypool, Ronald L., author.
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9780438120389
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1 electronic resource (269 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
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According to Locke's claim at the beginning of his Essay concerning Human Understanding, he is using "idea" to mean "whatever is meant by Phantasm, Notion, Species, or whatever it is, which the Mind can be employ'd about in thinking" (1.1.8). While this is clearly intended to be rather general, its lack of specificity and an absence of any further explicit clarification leaves Locke's position on this critical element of his theory open to confusion and apparent difficulties. For instance, if these ideas are all mental images (properly understood) there are a number of unwelcome consequences for Locke's theory. However, I argue that Locke is not committed to the position that all of our ideas are imagistic. Instead, Locke is best read as having what I call a "simple-combination" understanding of ideas.
That is, each of our non-simple ideas is really nothing more than a straight-forward combination of simpler ideas, in what can be understood as a basic language of mental discourse. Each term in such a combination is either a simple idea or a non-simple idea, which is in turn a simple-combination. As such, each idea is ultimately reducible to simple ideas. The inherent structure of meaningful explanation, or combination, allows for the compositionality that Lockean atomism about ideas requires, without the component ideas having to be thought of as elements of a sense experience. These simple-combinations effectively establish the parameters of the ideas and what they can properly be said to represent. Ideas are ultimately distinguishable by a comparison of their simple-combination contents, and things are appropriately represented by ideas if they correspond to the specifications of the simple-combination. Moreover, although each idea can be reduced to a set of ideas that may be largely imagistic, this does not require that higher level ideas are mental images.
This is compatible with the generality Locke clearly intends for the term idea, and makes possible a clearer understanding of Locke on several important topics, such as abstraction, representation, and demonstrative knowledge.
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