"They are, in the bodies we denominate from them, only a power to produce those sensations in us..."
Descartes and Locke are thinking along the same lines in with this statement. Descartes said that what we think we are seeing for the first time is really forgotten knowledge that we had already known. It seems to me like Locke is saying that the sensations we feel to create our ideas are already sensations we know in our minds but have forgotten.
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I believe Locke is trying to say that but i dont agree i believe that we know the sensations in our mind but we just dont want remember it. A human mind is very tricky, tries to confuse us, by closing our mind and think that we have no sensations.!!! what you think?
I do not feel that we use past sensations to formulate new ideas entirely. Yes, our experiences or sensations of the past might be repressed in our minds but this does not mean that the majority of our new ideas are depedent upon past sensations that are not evident to us immediately.
-chris rehonic
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