Made Voluntarily...pg 108
throughout this section Locke mentions how ideas are made of smaller simpler ideas put together and can only reach what the mind can allow it to reach. Basically going back to Descartes thought that truth is in us but since our minds have a limit of thought we can't access it. Locke is saying that our minds have limits as well however, the truth is made up by us from simpler thoughts. and these thoughts are improved again and again. again going back to Descartes when he would say that he took his ideas and just improved on them because our first ideas would not make sense. so i believe that Locke is telling us that because we are free to improve on our old ideas we can make up our own truths, which in turn allows man kind to not have a truth.
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i read one part of Locke's book where he explains that our mind is made up up of simple ideas, but these ideas can only be built but not make or destroyed with other new ideas.
But i disagree with the idea that you said "I believe that Locke is telling us that because we are free to improve on our old ideas we can make up our own truths, which in turn allows man kind to not have a truth."
For me, what ever our sensation and reflection tells us, i would believe, because there is no clear definition of what is " truth ", we can actually determine what is true what is not!
but if we never change our original ideas how come when we improve it we tend to forget it and make up an even better one.
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