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Locke intends to take a survey of our own understand ings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they are adapted.1 This he will do through the employment of an historical, plain method.
By historical he means the method of careful, accurate observation of the sequences of matter of fact. Similarly, in Boyle's treatise on The Origin of Forms and Qualities, the historical part,2 in contrast to the theoretical part,3 contains the observations of experiments. Locke turns away from speculative hypotheses and undertakes an examination of the mind and its objects in knowledge.
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