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Quotation from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
“it is but a supposed I know not what, to support those ideas we call accidents”
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXIII (Project Gutenberg #10615)
Locke's deflationary account of substance, applied equally to matter and spirit.
Citation: "it is but a supposed I know not what, to support those ideas we call accidents" — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXIII (Project Gutenberg #10615). (id an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q7)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
