The mind begins as a blank slate, and all our knowledge is written on it by experience.
Books that mention An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (6)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: “And I read about this time Locke On Human Understanding, and the Art of Thinking, by Messrs. du Port Royal.”
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: “did you ever read such a book as _Locke_'s Essay upon the Human Understanding?”
Martin Eden by Jack London: “Locke was the man, John Locke. Two hundred years ago—more than that, even in his ‘Essay concerning the Human Understanding,’ he proved the non-existence of innate ideas.”
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “For his eclectic postwar reading he had lined up Voltaire’s Letters to Several of His Friends, John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
1776 by David McCullough: “Nathanael read Caesar and Horace in English translation, Swift, Pope, and Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.”
An Inquiry into the Good by Nishida Kitarō: “As Locke said that even in demonstrative knowledge each step requires intuitive proof, at the base of every judgment in a chain there must always be a fact of pure experience (Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Bk. IV, Chap. II). [auto-translated]”