Knowledge

Unlike the rationalists, who think that knowledge is limitless, and the skeptics, who think we are incapable of knowing anything at all, Locke takes the middle ground and says that knowledge is possible, but it's limited. He says that a person can only be said to know something when they see why it is necessarily so. He says our minds are not capable of grasping every necessary connection there is. This is mainly because he is an empiricist and feels that all our knowledge comes from experience and we cannot experience neccessary connections. The natural world consists of observable;e properties and since he feels we cannot grasp the connections of these things we observe we can never truly know everything.

I definitely agree with Locke's position here. I think it's naive of the rationalists to believe that it is possible for anybody to ever know everything and obviously we have some knowledge of our world so we can't say that we cannot know anything. I think that Locke has the right idea that the capacity of our minds can hold an enormous amount of information, but there is a limit to everything.