Annotations of John Locke (1632-1704)

Annotations to a copy of John Sergeant's Solid philosophy asserted, against the fancies of the ideists, or, The method to science farther illustrated : with reflexions on Mr. Locke's Essay concerning human understanding (1697) in the hand of John Locke, the empiricist philosopher. Locke replies to Sergeant's criticisms of his system referring to himself in the third person. For further information see John W. Yolton, 'Locke's unpublished marginal replies to John Sergeant', Journal of the History of Ideas 12:4 (Oct. 1951), 528-559.