An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Exploring the foundations of human knowledge, this essay presents the mind at birth as a blank slate, later shaped by experience. It significantly contributed to the development of empiricism in modern philosophy and influenced Enlightenment thinkers. Pomona Press revives this classic work, making it accessible in a high-quality modern edition, while preserving the original text and artwork. This initiative aims to bring back scarce and costly early works from the 1900s and earlier.