...upon it, it constantly keeps;... such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities,... These I call secondary qualities." Farben haben (die sie von andersfarbigem Hintergrund abheben), oder...

...have to produce ideas or sensations. The secondary qualities are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts... (1690: n, viii, 10) Thus, for example,...

...these two lists; he characterizes the secondary qualities as being "nothing in the Objects themselves, but Powers to produce various Sensations in us by...Figure, Texture, and Motion of their insensible parts" (E II.viii.10: 135). The twin claims here - that sensible qualities such as colors, sounds, and hot...

...motion or rest, and number. 2dly such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities ... (2, VIII, 9 and 10) Thus color is a subjective datum, since depending on the lighting, the same...

...colors, sounds, and tastes are distinct from "secondary Qualities," that is, from the powers in bodies "to produce various Sensations in us by their primary...Figure, Texture, and Motion of their insensible parts." These secondary qualities, as opposed to their (nonresembling) sensory effects, are "real Qualities...

...familiar features of worldly things, "qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by...texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c." are correspondingly reduced, as in Galileo, to the status of secondary...

...resemble their causes. Not so with secondary qualities, which 'are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities'. Qualities of the third kind act like secondary qualities, except that they cause sensations in us indirectly...

...29-31). Locke 1(1689] 1979: 135) defined secondary qualities as 'nothing in the objects themselves, but Powers to produce various Sensations in us by their primary Qualities'. Berkeley interpreted Locke as distinguishing (arbitrarily) between qualities which exist materially...

...rest, and number. 10. 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 l call secondary qualities. To these might be added a third sort...

...defines secondary qualities: Such Qualities, which in truth are nothing in the Objects themselves, but Powers to produce various Sensations in us by...Bulk, Figure, Texture, and Motion of their insensible parts.100 It is clear from this passage that what Locke understands by a secondary quality is something...