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Artifact and Explanation

This picture is a copy of one my most famous pieces. It is titled //An Essay Concerning Human Understanding// revolving around the theorys of the human thinking process and knowledge. I explain my own understanding of a human's intelectual think through four books, making one very long essay on my theory of knowledge. In book I, I agrues with the Cartesian view of knowledge, which states that people are born with ideas. In the second part of the essay I state that humans come up with ideas and opinions through their own experiences; they are not born with them (like I stated in the Book I). I also state my theory on ideas saying that everything in our mind is an idea, whether it be a simple or complex one. I go on to tell you that words relate to the ideas in our heads rather than the actual objects in the real world, I explain this in detail in Book III. And finally in Book VIII, I state my theory of knowledge and enlighten you with my ideas and thinkings of knowledge and what it means. My essay, I feel is a very important part to society because it gave many people new ideas that they haven't thought about before and it encourged them to find more out about us and the world we live in.

"Mind/Body, Antiquarian Books." Home Page for John Gach Books. Web. 22 Sept. 2010. .

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