The development of Lockean abstraction

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 395-418

  Walmsley, Jonathan ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61149611975     PISSN: 09608788     EISSN: 14693526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096087800442110     Document Type: Article

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1. In this article the following system of referencing will be used. All references to the content of Drafts A and B of the Essay will cite the Draft, section number and page number of the extract from the Nidditch and Rogers edition (Drafts for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and other Philosophical Writings, Vol. 1 (Oxford, 1990)), thus (Draft A, §1, p. 1). References to Draft C of the Essay will appear as Book, chapter & section, always accompanied by a note to indicate the derivation from Draft C, thus (Draft C. I.i.1). References to the Essay will be in standard form, thus (I.i.l). Reference is made to books in Locke's Library. In these cases, the reference is to the numbered entry in the Harrison and Laslett catalogue of Locke's books (The Library of John Locke (Oxford, 1971)), thus (LL #1). References to Locke's correspondence indicate the letter number in the De Beer edition (The Correspondence of John Locke (Oxford, 1978-88)). thus (CJL 1). References to Manuscript sources will indicate the location of the Manuscript, the shelfmark and the page number, thus (Bodleian Library Locke MS f.l, p. 1). Readers are occasionally directed to the Aaron and Gibb edition of Draft A (An Early Draft of Locke's Essay Together with Excerpts from his Journals (Oxford. 1936)), by citation of this edition and page number, thus (A&G p. 1). All references from other sources are in standard form. Square brackets […] indicate an editorial insertion into a quotation
2. 'Locke on Abstraction: A Response to M. R. Ayers', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 7, (1999): 123-134
3. See, for example, Michael Ayers' Locke (London, 1991) Vol. 1. Ch.27 pp. 242-58. esp. pp. 248-53, and Kenneth Winkler's Berkeley (Oxford, 1989) Ch.2 pp. 22-52. esp. pp. 38-41. Ayers has made similar claims in a number of other writings -see his introduction to Berkeley's Philosophical Works including the works on vision (London, 1992) and 'Locke's Doctrine of Abstraction: Some Aspects of its Historical and Philosophical Significance' in John Locke: Symposium Wolfenbüttel 1979, ed. R. Brandt (Berlin, 1981)
4. References from Aquinas's work are from the Summa Theologiae, ed. and trans. Thomas Gilby el al. (London. 1964-1980)
5. This is a controversial claim, but space does not allow a full exposition on this point: it would take a paper of considerable size to demonstrate the continuity of Locke's thought in this particular. For a useful discussion of Locke's mature imagism see Ayers's Locke Vol. I, Ch.5, pp. 44-51
6. References to Hobbes's works are from The English Works Of Thomas Hobbes Of Malmesbury ed. W. Molesworth (London, 1839-45)