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Locke on Words, Vol. 3: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Classic Reprint)
Locke on Words Vol 3 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Classic Reprint Author:John Locke Excerpt from Locke on Words, Vol. 3: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — No apology seems to be needed for presenting the "immortal Third book" of Locke's Essay in a separate form. All who know it admit that it may be read with great profit by those who have neither time nor inclination to study the rest of the work in which it forms a kind... more » of episode. While it affords the student an admirable example of all that is most characteristic in Locke's style, method and opinions, it has also a real and substantive value of its own. As Hallam remarks, "Among many excellent things in the Essay on Human Understanding, none are more admirable than much of the third book on the nature of words, especially the three chapters on their imperfection and abuse."
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