An Analysis of Descartes, Locke, Reid, and Berkeley
This paper will discuss how knowledge can never truly be explained outside of human perception, and will be elucidated by the speculatory writings of Descartes, Reid, Locke, and Berkeley that seek to claim some sort of explanation for this impossible knowledge. By understanding how the process of knowledge is gathered by some of these expositions on perception, we can surely see how the senses are highly susceptible to doubtful arrangements of knowledge because they are so easily influenced by illusion. Although some of the great thinkers make it clear that there is a sort of knowledge that cannot be gathered from the sense, we can see how the theories of Descartes are wrong, and can never be prov