Deleuze, Hume, Empiricism, Locke

Deleuze derives from his reading of Hume a concept of 'Empiricism' as a theory of not The Given, but of the appropriation of The Given by Imagination. Accordingly, he defines 'non-empiricist' as any theory in which "relations are derived from the nature of things". However the applicability of these notions to the prototypical theory of Empiricism, one that plainly influences Hume, namely Locke's, is problematic. For Locke, the decisive moment of his theory does pertain to The Given, i. e. his 'tabula rasa' thesis. Furthermore, his theory of Primary Qualities does seem to imply that a class of relations, e. g. Mathematical ones, are derived from the nature of things, not constructed by Imagination. So, the absence of any attention to Locke significantly weakens Deleuze's interpretations of both Hume and Empiricism.