Question

read the following excerpt from john lockes an essay concerning human understanding and answer the questions.
in time the mind comes to reflect on its own dealing with the ideas acquired from sensation, and thereby stores up a new set of ideas that i call ideas of reflection ... the first capacity of human intellect is that the mind is furnishes and reach as high as heaven itself take off from here ...
in the getting of ideas the understanding is merely passive. it has no control over whether it will have these beginnings—these materials, so to speak—of knowledge. for many of the objects of our senses above their particular is operations of our minds wont let us be without at least some obscure notions of them. no man can be wholly ignorant of what he does when he thinks. the understanding can no more refuse to have these simple ideas when it imprinted, or blot them out and make new ones itself, than a mirror can refuse, alter, or obliterate the images or ideas that the objects placed in front of it produce on its surface.

1. in john locke’s writings, what does “furnishes” imply?

a. rejects knowledge and new ideas
b. creates confusion
c. destroys ideas
d. provides necessary materials

1. according to locke, how does the mind receive ideas?

a. through divine inspiration
b. from external sources
c. from language itself
d. through personal invention

Explanation:

Question 6

To answer, analyze the context. Locke's text talks about the mind acquiring ideas. "Furnishes" here should relate to providing materials for knowledge. Option a is about rejection (opposite), b about confusion (unrelated), c about destroying (opposite). Option d means providing necessary materials, matching the context of the mind getting ideas as materials for knowledge.

Locke's excerpt says the mind gets ideas from "outward objects" (sensation) and its own operations (reflection). Option a (divine inspiration) is not mentioned. Option b (external sources like outward objects) matches. Option c (language itself) is not in the text. Option d (personal invention) is wrong as the mind is "passive" in getting ideas, not inventing.

Answer:

d. Provides necessary materials

Question 7