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

Date: 1700

## The fact

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](/people/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. Do not twin this with the 1689 first Essay row. 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. Printers set the new text; the chapter is his revision.

## 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. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. 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. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/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. Do not twin this with the 1689 first Essay row. The 1700 identity chapter is a later instrument. Mixed effects of The Essay’s fourth edition enlarges the chapter Of Identity and Diversity are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — later public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615; Project Gutenberg). Independent: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, personal identity (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/; 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; Project Gutenberg). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Locke, personal identity (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — later public English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Improving education-access path: a revised public philosophy chapter. 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. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

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. 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.

## 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-identity-1700
