Locke's View on Knowledge of External World

Locke's View on Knowledge of External World
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Locke's View on Knowledge of External World
According to John Locke, knowledge entails the perception of agreement or disagreement of two ideas. In an essay about human understanding, Locke reaffirms that ideas are the only things humans are likely to perceive. He emphasizes that knowledge of the world is neither based on reasoning or inference nor on reflecting the mind's various ideas. Instead, knowledge can only be attained through a sensory experience (Carter, 2020). Locke subdivides knowledge into habitual and actual. Knowledge can be habitual if people remember that they once perceived such a relationship. The introduction to sensitive knowledge by Locke is quite puzzling.
I agree with Locke that we are likely to have knowledge of the external world despite having an awareness of the sense data. Notably, knowledge entails perceiving an agreement of ideas and that a specific proposition is true (Pris...