To clarify, what I am looking for is the source (author, title, page) for this doctrine that John Locke references in ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, BOOK II,
Chapter I, paragraphs 10 through 19. I would guess Descartes or Spinoza, since they precede Locke chronologically. At any rate, the source in question MUST be earlier than 1690.
See http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/locke/locke1/Book2a.html
Excerpt (note last line):
“We know certainly by experience that we sometimes think, and thence draw this infalliable consequence that there is something in us that has the power to think, but whether that substance perpetually thinks or not, we can be no farther assured than experience inform us… 13. Impossible to convince those that sleep without dreaming, that they think. Thus, methinks, every drowsy nod shakes their doctrine, who teach that the soul is always thinking.
2006-09-27
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