An Essay Concerning Human Understanding¶
Locke, J. (1689). An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
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Primes¶
- Abstraction
- There is the underlying source — an entity, system, or situation richer in detail than the abstraction carries — and abstraction is meaningful only against this richer original.
This sourceTreats abstraction as the mental faculty by which the mind forms general ideas from particular sensations — grouping similar particulars and abstracting away their differences to retain the common residue.
- There is the underlying source — an entity, system, or situation richer in detail than the abstraction carries — and abstraction is meaningful only against this richer original.
- Essentialism
- Locke's Essay (1689) distinguishing real essence (underlying physical basis of the properties of a kind) from nominal essence (the abstract idea associated with the kind-term
This sourceThomas Basset, London. Book III draws the distinction between real essence (the unknown internal constitution on which a kind's discoverable qualities depend) and nominal essence (the abstract idea the sortal name stands for) — exactly the real/nominal-essence divide the marker cites. (NOTE: the existing annotation describing 'abstraction as a mental faculty' is from a different prime and does not match the real/nominal-essence claim here — annotation corrected.)
- Locke's Essay (1689) distinguishing real essence (underlying physical basis of the properties of a kind) from nominal essence (the abstract idea associated with the kind-term
- Rights vs. Freedoms
- (4) mature legal and moral systems combine both, recognizing that the absolute-vs-defeasible character of each differs: specific rights (to counsel, to vote, to due process) typically require institutional enforcement and are defeasible under specified conditions, while broad freedoms (of speech, movement, religion) are protected by abstention and are the legal-vs-moral grounding of different enforcement mechanisms.
This sourceFoundational philosophical treatment of abstraction as a mental faculty: the mind abstracts from particular sensations to form general ideas and concepts. Establishes abstraction as a fundamental cognitive operation, distinct from perception, and as the mechanism by which humans move from concrete experience to abstract knowledge.
- (4) mature legal and moral systems combine both, recognizing that the absolute-vs-defeasible character of each differs: specific rights (to counsel, to vote, to due process) typically require institutional enforcement and are defeasible under specified conditions, while broad freedoms (of speech, movement, religion) are protected by abstention and are the legal-vs-moral grounding of different enforcement mechanisms.
- Separation of Powers
- Separation is structural (different institutions), procedural (different decision rules), and personnel-based (different people, different terms), an architecture whose conceptual roots Locke (1689) had earlier laid in the Second Treatise of Government by distinguishing legislative, executive, and federative powers and arguing that the legislative power could not safely be exercised by those who execute the laws.
This sourceFoundational philosophical treatment of abstraction as a mental faculty: the mind abstracts from particular sensations to form general ideas and concepts. Establishes abstraction as a fundamental cognitive operation, distinct from perception, and as the mechanism by which humans move from concrete experience to abstract knowledge.
- Separation is structural (different institutions), procedural (different decision rules), and personnel-based (different people, different terms), an architecture whose conceptual roots Locke (1689) had earlier laid in the Second Treatise of Government by distinguishing legislative, executive, and federative powers and arguing that the legislative power could not safely be exercised by those who execute the laws.
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