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Classification of Ideas: Complex Ideas-Ideas of Substance

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There are two kinds of Ideas, according to Locke, namely, simple and complex ideas.

Complex Ideas

  • Locke lived in an age of composition theory according to which a complex whole is only a sum of simple parts
  • This ignored the fact that the whole may have a characteristic by virtue of its being a whole.
  • Again, a part changed by the whole of which it becomes a part.
  • Nonetheless, Locke believed that he could explain knowledge by reducing it to simple ideas.
  • There are three types of Complex ideas;
    • Ideas of Modes
    • Ideas of Substance
    • Ideas of Relation

Ideas of Substance

  • In explaining the complex ideas of substance and relations, Locke departs fr…

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Classification of Ideas: Complex Ideas, Ideas of Modes, Simple Modes

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There are two kinds of Ideas, according to Locke, namely, simple and complex ideas.

Complex Ideas

  • Locke lived in an age of composition theory according to which a complex whole is only a sum of simple parts
  • This ignored the fact that the whole may have a characteristic by virtue of its being a whole.
  • Again, a part change…

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