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1690
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
London, 1690, first edition
A scholar, physician and philosopher, John Locke set out to "inquire into the ... certainty, and extent of human knowledge; together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent." Locke declared that "new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." The solution? A devotion to freedom of ideas and expression. |