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Locke’s platonism is not usually clear to the modern reader, and I shall deal here with his philosophy mainly in order to bring this out. It will become clear that the view that he was a conceptualist or nominalist is true but irrelevant to his philosophy of nature.
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Bechler, Z. (1991). Locke and the Meaning of “Empiricism”. In: Newton’s Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 127. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3276-3_13
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