Empiricism
In Our Time: Philosophy
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What Locke Got From Descartes Is the Idea of Ideas
John locke saw himself as the other and great figures of the seventeenth century whom we admire, did as a pioneer of something called the new philosophy. He hated aristotle because he had an idea of natural knowledge which was coming to seem to be an obstacle to progress in the natural sciences. What locke got from descartes was not only the things that murray pittock has already mentioned, but also a word. That's the word ideas. The word ideas in previous philosophy had meant something very special, to do with mathematics,. There had been ideas of numbers, ideas in geometry. But the descartes very self consciously introduced a new usage of the word idea, where
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