# An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a completed public philosophy book Date: 1689 ## The fact A public epistemology. He did not see HTML. The dated public instrument is stored under 1689-07-01. [John Locke](/people/john-locke) did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph. It is one event. ## 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. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Conventional 1632–1704. Dated instruments are Gutenberg TMS-no: Treatises, Essay, Letter, SEP, Bodleian, and TNA catalogues. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — public English and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — John Locke independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615; Project Gutenberg). ## Significance A public epistemology. He did not see HTML. ## What is established and what is not Established as a dated public record of this instrument. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by John Locke. They are not a public rating. John Locke did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. ## People - John Locke: https://factrail.ai/people/john-locke ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615 - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-essay-1689