Locke's Wild Fancies: Empiricism, Personhood, and Fictionality.
This article presents the author's views regarding the wild fancies of John Locke on empiricism, personhood, and fictionality. The author infers that when Locke carries a guess about self and personhood as far as it will naturally go without the aid of wild fancies, it ends up as an uncontrollable s...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 187 - 205 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Fall2007
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| Sumario: | This article presents the author's views regarding the wild fancies of John Locke on empiricism, personhood, and fictionality. The author infers that when Locke carries a guess about self and personhood as far as it will naturally go without the aid of wild fancies, it ends up as an uncontrollable series of possibilities fenced around with negative qualifications. |
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