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  • adjective Of or pertaining to John Locke (1632–1704), English physician and philosopher, regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.
  • noun A philosopher who supports the beliefs of John Locke.

Etymologies

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Locke +‎ -an

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Examples

  • Materialism (as evinced in Lockean associationism) "removes all reality and immediateness of perception, and places us in a dream-world of phantoms and spectres, the inexplicable swarm and equivocal generation of motions in our own brain"

    Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology 2005

  • With its roots in Lockean subjectivity and Enlightenment theories of emotion, sensibility usually structures social interaction and the acts of reading that come with it into an exterior-interior binary, where speech and physical signifiers like tone of voice, sighing, or physical unsteadiness promise to represent interior emotional states and, as Butler puts it, "every movement of thought."

    Unanswerable Gallantry and Thick-Headed Nonsense: Rereading Box Hill 2000

  • Normatively: by defining property in terms of right to exclude, the law could avoid the “thingification” of property and the labor/natural rights theory of property, aka the Lockean theory.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Unlike traditional Western theories of language, such as Lockean conceptualism, the Mohists do not explain the relation between language and the world by appeal to mental ideas or meanings that words stand for.

    Mohist Canons Fraser, Chris 2009

  • Now this view may appear, and indeed is, paradoxical or impossible from the classical, such as Lockean, perspective.

    From the (Ever) Complex to the (Never) Simple: A Response to R. Paul Yoder's 2001

  • Many of these interventions, however, take for granted that the United States has always had a liberal or "Lockean" political or legal culture, and that this is a culture of individualism.

    Legal History Blog 2009

  • We’re going to need to some kind of Lockean tacit consent argument to back that one up but I don’t see how you can make it work.

    Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil? 2010

  • He thinks we presently like to default to Lockean, natural rights reasoning: an owner can do what it likes with its property.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Lockean theory gives copyright owners a right to control Problems arise with respect to differences in rights compared to real property — right to exclude and durational limit.

    IPSC: Copyright/Right of Publicity/GIs Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • A Lockean might think hard creative work should be rewarded.

    IPSC: final plenary Rebecca Tushnet 2009

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