Locke on Reason and Knowledge

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Subject Area:Philosophy

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Locke distinguishes four agreement sorts, of the agreement between perceptions, ideas in which it gives the four distinctive knowledge types. The first type of knowledge according to Locke is the knowledge of diversity and identity, which needs only ideas comparison that is direct and intuitive every time ideas are clear when compared (Locke, 1836). The second type is the knowledge of coexistence, which helps in the provision of information that is detailed about natural word features occurring together in our natural world. The knowledge of relation to the rest of morality and mathematics and the last one is the knowledge of real existence dealing with the degree of certainty and depending wholly upon the ides content in every case. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are known as the social contrast theories and the law theorist.

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