ABSTRACT
More than the physical break between volumes makes this an appropriate place to take brief stock of what Locke's arguments have taught us. Roughly, the present volume has dealt with his general theory of knowledge and belief, particular and universal, and of the faculties which give rise to them, while the second volume will follow his account of their various objects, real and notional. The division is not a neat one, since epistemology and ontology do not so easily come apart: each shapes the other. Nevertheless, despite detours and foreshadowings, the argument up to this point has been dominated by a single theme: the question of the contribution of consciousness to thought and knowledge in their various forms. That question includes the question of the forms that consciousness itself can take, and of their relation to the epistemically primitive form of consciousness we call sensation.
