If one adopts the Lockean framework, then, one might say that an idea such as knowledge is, despite any contrary appearance, a complex idea made up of the simpler ideas: for example, justification, belief, and truth. And if we want to understand how we could acquire the idea of knowledge, then we have to find the original experiences from which we gained these simpler ideas. An idea such as belief may itself also be complex and permit further analysis until we reach the level of absolute simplicity. This, it must be said, allows one possible criticism of the analytic approach: what if there
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Locke. All the way down?
