{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-book-page-js","path":"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/","result":{"data":{"mdx":{"id":"99326102-2547-5bed-b485-9ab70d4ffc28","body":"function _extends() { _extends = Object.assign || function (target) { for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { var source = arguments[i]; for (var key in source) { if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(source, key)) { target[key] = source[key]; } } } return target; }; return _extends.apply(this, arguments); }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutProperties(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded); var key, i; if (Object.getOwnPropertySymbols) { var sourceSymbolKeys = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(source); for (i = 0; i < sourceSymbolKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceSymbolKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; if (!Object.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable.call(source, key)) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } } return target; }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = {}; var sourceKeys = Object.keys(source); var key, i; for (i = 0; i < sourceKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } return target; }\n\n/* @jsxRuntime classic */\n\n/* @jsx mdx */\nvar _frontmatter = {\n  \"author\": \"John Locke\",\n  \"date\": \"2020-12-17T15:04:10.000Z\",\n  \"description\": \"No description\",\n  \"isBook\": true,\n  \"numSections\": 0,\n  \"tags\": [\"a\"],\n  \"templateKey\": \"book-page\",\n  \"title\": \"An Essay concerning Human Understanding\"\n};\nvar layoutProps = {\n  _frontmatter: _frontmatter\n};\nvar MDXLayout = \"wrapper\";\nreturn function MDXContent(_ref) {\n  var components = _ref.components,\n      props = _objectWithoutProperties(_ref, [\"components\"]);\n\n  return mdx(MDXLayout, _extends({}, layoutProps, props, {\n    components: components,\n    mdxType: \"MDXLayout\"\n  }), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/0\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"PREFACE by the EDITOR.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/1\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"the LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/2\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"to the right honourable THOMAS, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery,\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/3\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"THE EPISTLE to the READER.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/4\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"BOOK I.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(\"div\", {\n    className: \"ml-4\"\n  }, mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/5\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. I.: Introduction.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/6\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. II.: No Innate Principles in the Mind.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/7\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. III.: No Innate Practical Principles.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/8\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. IV.: Other Considerations concerning Innate Principles, both Speculative and Practical.\")), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/9\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"BOOK II.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(\"div\", {\n    className: \"ml-4\"\n  }, mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/10\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. I.: Of Ideas in general, and their Original.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/11\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. II.: Of Simple Ideas.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/12\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. III.: Of Ideas of one Sense.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/13\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. IV.: Of Solidity.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/14\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. V.: Of Simple Ideas of divers Senses.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/15\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. VI.: Of Simple Ideas of Reflection.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/16\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. VII.: Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/17\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. VIII.: Some farther Considerations concerning our Simple Ideas.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/18\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. IX.: Of Perception.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/19\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. X.: Of Retention.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/20\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XI.: Of Discerning, and other Operations of the Mind.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/21\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XII.: Of Complex Ideas.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/22\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XIII.: Of Simple Modes, and first of the Simple Modes of Space.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/23\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XIV.: Of Duration, and its simple Modes.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/24\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XV.: Of Duration and Expansion, considered together.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/25\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XVI.: Of Number.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/26\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XVII.: Of Infinity.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/27\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XVIII.: Of other Simple Modes.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/28\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XIX.: Of the Modes of Thinking.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/29\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XX.: Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/30\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXI.: Of Power.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/31\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXII.: Of mixed Modes.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/32\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXIII.: Of our complex Ideas of Substances.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/33\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXIV.: Of collective Ideas of Substances.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/34\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXV.: Of Relation.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/35\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXVI.: Of Cause and Effect, and other Relations.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/36\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXVII.: Of Identity and Diversity.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/37\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXVIII.: Of other Relations.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/38\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXIX.: Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused Ideas.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/39\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXX.: Of Real and Fantastical Ideas.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/40\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXXI.: Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/41\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXXII.: Of true and false Ideas.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/42\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXXIII.: Of the Association of Ideas.\")), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/43\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"BOOK III.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(\"div\", {\n    className: \"ml-4\"\n  }, mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/44\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. I.: Of Words or Language in general.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/45\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. II.: Of the Signification of Words.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/46\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. III.: Of General Terms.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/47\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. IV.: Of the Names of Simple Ideas.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/48\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. V.: Of the Names of mixed Modes and Relations.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/49\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. VI.: Of the Names of Substances.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/50\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. VII.: Of Particles.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/51\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. VIII.: Of Abstract and Concrete Terms.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/52\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. IX.: Of the Imperfection of Words.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/53\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. X.: Of the Abuse of Words.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/54\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XI.: Of the Remedies of the foregoing Imperfections and Abuses.\")), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/55\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"BOOK IV.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(\"div\", {\n    className: \"ml-4\"\n  }, mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/56\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. I.: Of Knowledge in General.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/57\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. II.: Of the Degrees of our Knowledge.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/58\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. III.: Of the Extent of Human Knowledge.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/59\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. IV.: Of the Reality of Knowledge.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/60\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. V.: Of Truth in General.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/61\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. VI.: Of Universal Propositions, their Truth and Certainty.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/62\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. VII.: Of Maxims.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/63\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. VIII.: Of Trifling Propositions.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/64\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. IX.: Of our Knowledge of Existence.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/65\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. X.: Of our Knowledge of the Existence of a God.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/66\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XI.: Of our Knowledge of the Existence of other Things.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/67\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XII.: Of the Improvement of our Knowledge.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/68\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XIII.: Some farther Considerations concerning our Knowledge.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/69\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XIV.: Of Judgment.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/70\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XV.: Of Probability.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/71\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XVI.: Of the Degrees of Assent.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/72\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XVII.: Of Reason.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/73\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XVIII.: Of Faith and Reason, and their distinct Provinces.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/74\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XIX.: Of Enthusiasm.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/75\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XX.: Of wrong Assent, or Errour.\"), mdx(\"br\", null), mdx(Link, {\n    className: \"font-serif\",\n    to: \"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/76\",\n    mdxType: \"Link\"\n  }, \"CHAP. XXI.: Of the Division of the Sciences.\")));\n}\n;\nMDXContent.isMDXComponent = true;","fields":{"slug":"/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/"},"frontmatter":{"isBook":true,"title":"An Essay concerning Human Understanding","bookTitle":null,"numSections":0,"tags":["a"],"author":"John Locke"}}},"pageContext":{"id":"99326102-2547-5bed-b485-9ab70d4ffc28"}},"staticQueryHashes":["4080856488"]}