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John Locke
1. What is Locke’s argument that there are no innate principles? Is the argument compelling? Why or why not?
2. According to Locke, how do we acquire knowledge about the external world?
3. Locke considers the perspective of a skeptic, who will “distrust his senses . . . and affirm that all we see and hear, feel and taste, think and do, during our whole being, is but the series and deluding appearances of a long dream whereof there is no reality. . . .” How does Locke respond to the skeptic? Is his response to the skeptic compelling? Why or why not?