...words and language (Book III), Locke flakes up the question of the extent of our knowledge (Book IV). "Knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas." Our simple ideas are all trustworthy because we can not produce them ; they are the effects of something...

...it alone does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them. 2. Knowledge is the Perception of the Agreement or Disagreement of two Ideas. Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion of and agreement, or disagreement...

...disagreement between an idea and something that is not an idea and yet the heading to this section reads 'Knowledge is the Perception of the Agreement or Disagreement of two Ideas'. The first interpretation seems sometimes to be favoured by the text but further light is thrown upon...

...mind "hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does and can contemplate,"23 and that "knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas."24 In arguing this, Locke was advancing what is sometimes called the representative theory of...

...does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them.' And again: ‘Knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas.' From this it would seem to follow immediately that we cannot know of the existence of other people,...

...Ideas that relate to the understanding more directly than to a sensational cause may be called notions. Knowledge is the perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas. Probability is the likeliness of such agreements and disagreements when demonstrative proof is not...

...summaries/ headings of these three articles: § i. Our Knowledge conversant about our Ideas. § 2. Knowledge is the Perception of the Agreement or Disagreement of two Ideas. § 3. This Agreement fourfold. In context, "This Agreement fourfold" certainly refers to four sorts...