Primary Category: Understanding (Foundations and Truths): Locke conceives of the mind as an empty cabinet that can only be filled with ideas by means of experience, making Locke a foundational empiricist, or one who believes knowledge is derived from the senses. This leads to Locke’s vision of human beings as sentient (thinking and feeling) beings, or bodily beings. Locke’s narrative of gaining knowledge is inductive, as it moves from the particular to the general: the senses let in a particular idea, the mind becomes familiar with this idea, then the mind remembers the idea, then the mind can abstract the idea, and finally, the mind can label the idea. Simple ideas are formed from one sense, while complex ideas consist of substances (independently existing things), modes (qualities/properties of substance), and relations (compare different ideas).