Polovnikov V. Contamination "understanding", "knowledge", "understanding" (cognition ), in the epistemology of classical empiricism

The dissertation is devoted to investigate the General trends in philosophy of empiricism in the context of philosophical systems. Locke, J. Berkeley, Hume. In the work of a scientific analysis carried out key concepts of philosophical systems. Locke, J. Berkeley, Hume's "understanding", "knowledge", "understanding" (cognition), and set their contaminative nature, substantive differences and common contents of these concepts. It is that Hume's "understanding" (cognition) is an act of seizing the original ideas that is sensual, Berkeley's "knowledge" - thinking ideas that do not exist outside of our consciousness, Locke's "understanding" is the process of formation in the mind of secondary ideas based on original ideas of "understanding" (cognition), which where sensually downloaded.