Deor. He set down the principles of modern English empiricism. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)- An inquiry into the nature of knowledge that attempts to settle what questions hu-man understanding is and is not equipped to handle. Identity of modes and relations. Since it is the understanding that sets man above all other animals and enables him to use and dominate them, it is cer-tainly worth our while to enquire into it. to the understanding. De Natur. Essay II John Locke Chapter xxvii: Identity and diversity 112 Chapter xxviii: Other relations 122 Chapter xxix: Clear and obscure, distinct and confused ideas127 Chapter xxx: Real and fantastical ideas 131 Chapter xxxi: Adequate and inadequate ideas 133 Chapter xxxii: True and false ideas 137 Chapter xxxiii: The association of ideas 141 3. Locke, John (1632-1704) - English philosopher who had a tremendous influ-ence on human knowledge and on political theory. Essay II John Locke i: Ideas and their origin Chapter i: Ideas in general, and their origin 1. All other things being but modes or relations ultimately terminated in substances, the identity and diversity of each particular existence of them too will be by the same way determined: only as to things whose existence is in succession, such as are the actions of nite beings, v. g. —Cic. Everyone is conscious to himself that he thinks; and when thinking is going on, the mind is engaged with ideas that it contains. 1. i. LONDON: Printed by Eliz. Essay I John Locke i: Introduction Chapter i: Introduction 1. Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi displicere. Holt, for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet Street, near St. Dunstan’s Church.