Something Simple... I Guess? - Addison Zanda

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Locke was challenging read not going to lie. The characteristics of the "simple ideas" were one of the few subjects within this read that caught my attention. All knowledge within is somehow shaped back into simple ideas and transports its way around the human mind to two simple ideas of sensation and reflection. Our sensation comes from the sights, sounds, and smells we experience while the reflection plays the vital role of drawing our mind to think. According to Locke, we break all of those ideas into their own basic fundamental parts. Take a tree for instance, we can fully see the shape, color depth, and know what the tree feels like from our sensation aspect. Reading this passage by Locke, it made me realize that a simple can't be defined. We may know what the brown bark on a tree may look like, but can we truly define it? Or am I being weird? ldk, but that's what I understood from the reading.

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Caroline Tucker said…
Yes. This was a very challenging read. I agree with you that Locke made something simple seem so complex. It is so mind boggling that something we think of as “simple” is actually really hard to comprehend on a detailed level. We just go by day to day not even realizing how intricate the world is. On the bright side, the fact that the world that we live in is intricate points to God. If the world was simple it could have just appeared (in theory) but the world isn’t simple. Since the world is not simple it shows God’s greatness and that there is no way that the world could exist if He did not create it.
September 23, 2019 at 7:56 PM
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