Kenneth Evans

1. To determine the limits of human understanding in order to establish more

clearly things like reason and faith. He wants to find those things which are
fundamental to the pursuit and attainment of knowledge in order to establish
a framework with which to intelligibly discuss things.
2. It is a concern about the transmission of a specific kind of sense data into a
kind of understanding of another sort of sense data. The concern arises from
the following. If someone was born without the ability to see from birth and
grew up learning the difference between two kinds of shapes, squares and
circles, would she be able to tell which one was which after gaining sight? The
idea at question is whether or not one can make the jump from the world of
touch to the world of sight, to which Locke answers no. There is no innate
ability which would allow someone to comprehend the world of sight as
corresponding to the world of touch without experience telling the person
that it is so.
3. Locke defines the will as a passive element, as a power or facility, which
gives a kind of ability to commit acts (or to suspend the ability to commit
acts). This kind of definition does not lend itself well to a kind of discussion of
its freedom, how can a passive principle be free? Locke thinks that discussing
such a thing using the word free would give cause to saying things like the
singing thing sings which is absurd.