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The Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity

In 1700 the fourth edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding carried an enlarged Of Identity and Diversity. The dated revision is not the 1689 first publication of the Essay and not a 2001 SEP article. 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.

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In 1700 the fourth edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding carried an enlarged Of Identity and Diversity. The dated revision is not the 1689 first publication of the Essay and not a 2001 SEP article. John Locke’s documented role is: He revised the Essay for a 1700 fourth edition, enlarging II.xxvii on personal identity. Printers set the new text; the chapter is his revision. The 1700 identity chapter is a later instrument. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. John Locke's documented role is: He revised the Essay for a 1700 fourth edition, enlarging II.xxvii on personal identity.

Context

Stillingfleet controversy and earlier edition patches already sat in the file. A chapter on forensic personhood is not a unique legal code. Later Penguin and Gutenberg texts are access, not 1700 type. Named others on the file: Churchill as printer, Stillingfleet as neighbouring critic, and later editors share the chapter’s survival. The public setting is the file around 1700-01-01. Contribution type is direct. The instrument stays The Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity. The setting of The Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity is the public file around 1700-01-01. Contribution type is direct. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of The Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity are separate paths.

Why it matters

Direct on the 1700 text. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated enlarged chapter put a public consciousness-and-person theory into the Essay’s teaching file. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

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  • John Locke

    Person

    Direct responsibility

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    He revised the Essay for a 1700 fourth edition, enlarging II.xxvii on personal identity. Printers set the new text; the chapter is his revision.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — public EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — John LockeStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — later public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615 (opens in a new tab); Project Gutenberg). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, personal identity (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — later public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615 (opens in a new tab); Project Gutenberg). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, personal identity (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Established: 1700 fourth-edition enlargement of the identity chapter. Not established: that 1689 already contained this same chapter as later read. Established: a sourced public record of The Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity under 1700-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of The Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity. Naming John Locke does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1700-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJohn Locke
  2. contributed toFactThe Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/jlk-essay-identity-1700

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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