Separability and concept-empiricism: Hume vs. Locke

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (4):729 – 743 (2007)
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Hume invokes the separability of perceptions to derive some of his most contentious pronouncements. To assess the cogency of the arguments, the notion must first be clarified. The clarification reveals that sic different separability claims must be distinguished. Of these, I consider the three that are rarely discussed. They turn out to be unacceptable. Locke espouses none of them.This Article does not have an abstract

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