An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a completed public philosophy book
Dated 1 December 1689: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a completed public philosophy book. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
Read the full account
A public epistemology. He did not see HTML. John Locke did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.
Context
Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.
John Locke Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.
John Locke’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Conventional 1632–1704.
Why it matters
A public epistemology. He did not see HTML.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
John Locke
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a completed public philosophy book
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 December 1689 · verified
A public epistemology. He did not see HTML.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.22 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.19 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — public EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
- 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — John LockeStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
John Locke did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorJohn Locke
- contributed toFactAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a completed public philosophy book
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a completed public philosophy book. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-essay-1689
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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