Theory of Knowledge - Knowledge of Identity: Epistemology or the Theory of Knowledge, the Knowledge of Identity

• John Locke was an empiricist, he raised the question of epistemology in the clearest terms. He was more concerned with knowing them with the things known.
• He has given us psychology as an empirical science and has introduced historical method in Philosophy. His theory of knowledge as well as metaphysics has great importance in the world of Western philosophy.

Epistemology or the theory of Knowledge

• Knowledge according to Locke consists in, “perception of the connection and the agreement, or the disagre…

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Knowledge of Existence, Intuitive Knowledge of Self-Existence, the Possibility of Material World & Instructiveness of Knowledge

Knowledge of Existence

• The fourth kind of knowledge is the knowledge of existence.
• All the while Locke believed that there is a real objective world.
• The objective world exists in its won right.
• Locke then confined knowledge to ideas alone.
• This dualism he could not overcome.
• He finds the knowledge about existential things is not possible, in general,
• There are only two things whose existence we know with perfect transparency of knowledge.
• Firstly, we have the intuitive knowledge of our own self.
• This unique…

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