John Locke

In 1690, the famous English philosopher John Locke published An Essay concerning Human Understanding in which Edward Herbertproposed Edward Herbert's theory of how human beings acquire “understanding” or knowledge.

Locke

To ask when a human being acquires ideas in the first place ‘is to ask when Descartes begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing,’ writes Locke in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).