In his "Méthode nouvelle," an anonymous article in the Bibliothèque universelle of 1686, John Locke described his way of collecting excerpts in notebooks and retrieving relevant entries. The well-known practice of entering textual passages in commonplace books sits uneasily with Locke's criticism of received opinion and authority. Is it possible that he used any of these notes to think with? I suggest that the conditions for this were provided by Locke's interactions with some of his notes, including those which recorded observations, testimonies and experiments. As well as labelling excerpts and other notes with topical Titles, Locke sometimes added precise bibliographical citations, transferred material across notebooks, interpolated his own signed reflections and queries, and (eventually) dated entries.

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摘录思考：约翰·洛克（1632-1704）和他的笔记本

在 1686 年世界图书馆的匿名文章“新方法”中，约翰·洛克描述了他在笔记本中收集摘录和检索相关条目的方式。在普通书籍中输入文本段落的众所周知的做法与洛克对公认的意见和权威的批评不一致。他有没有可能用这些笔记中的任何一个来思考？我认为，洛克与他的一些笔记的互动提供了这个条件，包括那些记录观察、证词和实验的笔记。除了用主题标题标记摘录和其他笔记外，洛克有时还会添加精确的书目引文，在笔记本之间传输材料，插入他自己签名的思考和查询，以及（最终）注明日期的条目。