Abstract
Locke was an English appearancist. An appearancist is one who believes that it is more important to look good than to be good because things are nothing but what they appear to be. The truth of an idea, like the beauty of a person, is only skin deep, superficial, and therefore, one never needs to go below the surface to get at it. Locke hoarded his ideas; he saved all of them, even those that were spent. He continuously inflated those that others devalued and therefore eventually placed infinite value on those that were worth nothing. He believed that all of us were born with completely blank minds and that they got filled by experience. His, however, had a slow leak. He argued that our senses pick up everything they come in contact with-that they see, hear, taste, feel, smell, or write about. Ideas, he said, arise from reflecting on all the junk that the senses collected. Whenever an idea came up, Locke put it down, usually on paper (Fig. 1). This was quite easy because none of them had a leg to stand on.
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