In the beginning of the first book Locke talks about rules of a method to search the bounds between knowledge and opinion. This brings me back Descartes Discourse 2. It is almost similar. Descartes was trying to find the truth behind everything. Well, isn't that the same as opinion verses knowledge? Locke also did steps to do this like Descartes did.
"First. I shall inquire into the original of those ideas, notions, or whatever else you please to call them, which a man observes, and is conscious to himself he was in his mind, and the ways whereby the understanding comes to be furnished with them."
"Secondly. I Shall endeavor to show what knowledge the understanding hath by those ideas, and the certainty, evidence, and extent of it."
"Thirdly. I shall make some inquiry into the nature and grounds of faith or opinion; whereby I mean. that assent which we give to any proposition as true, of whose truth yet we have no certain knowledge: and here we shall have occasion to examine the reasons and degrees of assent"
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