 Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes,...  The Works of John Locke - Page 120de John Locke - 1823Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1908 - 768 pages
...Secondary qualities. — Secondly. Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, *-. e., by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes,... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 330 pages
...qualities. Secondary qualities. — Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by...figure, texture and motion of their insensible parts, as colors, sounds, tastes, etc., these I call secondary qualities. In summing his discussion of substances... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - 1910 - 334 pages
...motion or rest, number. Secondly, such qualities which, in truth, are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by...figure, texture and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, etc. These I call secondary qualities." 1 The primary qualities, inasmuch... | |
 | Mary Whiton Calkins - 1910 - 618 pages
...they are, so he holds, mere sensations in us produced by the primary qualities of material things, "ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of [their] insensible parts." 2 That is, Locke teaches, as Descartes had taught, that real bodies, or material things, are without... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - 1910 - 340 pages
...motion or rest, number. Secondly, such qualities which, in truth, are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, /'. e., by the bulk, figure, texture and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes,... | |
 | 1843 - 666 pages
...in the objects, but powers to produce various sensation in us by their primary qualities, that is, by the bulk, figure, texture and motion of their insensible parts, as sounds, colors, tastes,"! &c. I am aware that many a special plea has been made in behalf of Locke... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - 1912 - 328 pages
...former to the objects themselves, and declaring the latter to be " nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities." To the mind of the English reader there will at once occur, in this connection, Locke's classical denudation... | |
 | 1912 - 770 pages
...Secondary qualities. — Secondly. Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, iet by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes,... | |
 | Frank Thilly - 1914 - 1358 pages
...extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. Qualities which are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, as colors, sounds, tastes, etc., are called secondary qualities' * All our simple ideas are received... | |
 | Roy Balmer Liddy - 1914 - 156 pages
...qualities. The latter are colours, sounds, tastes, etc., and "are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities". 2 The primary qualities, however, are such as are utterly inseparable from every particle of perceived... | |
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