著者

後藤 愛司

出版者

岐阜聖徳学園大学

雑誌

聖徳学園女子短期大学紀要 (ISSN:03875067)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, pp.19-32, 1994-03-31

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The purpose of this paper is to make clear several problems concerning "probability" in John Locke's <<An Essay concerning Human Understanding>>. In the descriptions of Book IV of this text, the problem of how to discriminate "probability" from "knowledge" is closely connected with the Problems on the validity of the knowledge in his "Natural Philosophy". Then I would like to examine Locke's descriptions in which both "probability" and "natural philosophy" are considered, and solve the following problems. 1. Relationship between Probability and Knowledge 2. The subject and the method of Natural Philosophy 3. The meaning of Speculetive truth