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Question 1: on Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
1. How do children get ideas fixed in their memories according to Locke?
2. What does Locke say is the function of words, the way in which we use them?
3. Locke says we cannot have one word for each individual thing in the world. Why does he believe this is impossible? What is the mind's solution to the problem?
4. How do we fix the meanings of the words for colors? What does Locke say that the words for colors signify?
Question 2: on Hobbes' Leviathan
1. What are the reasons that people quarrel with each other according to Hobbes?
2. What state does Hobbes say that people live in before there is a power to control them through fear? How does he describe the life of a person in this state?
3. Hobbes argues that two natural laws control people's behavior. What are they?'
4. People want to preserve their own existence and to live a more contented life, Hobbes says. What do they do in order to achieve these goals?