 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
 | Margaret Dauler Wilson - 1999 - 550 pages
...are not real, intrinsic qualities of bodies; as they are in the bodies, secondary qualities are "only Powers to produce various Sensations in us by their...Figure, Texture, and Motion of their insensible parts . . ." (Essay I1.viii.10; cf. 15). Of course Locke, when he is being careful about his distinction... | |
 | Kenneth A. Bryson, Ken Bryson - 1999 - 236 pages
...sensations is subjective. Locke says that secondary qualities: "are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities" (ibid, Book 2, ch. 8, sect. 10). In chapter 12 of the same book, he informs us that complex ideas arise... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1999 - 606 pages
...found in the bodies. The secondary qualities, 'which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities' '.' They include colour, sounds, tastes etc. Again, 'primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of... | |
 | Stephen Everson - 1997 - 332 pages
...position. and allow that what produces the sensation in I. 7o can itself be a dispositional properТy. but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities' (Essay IL viii. 1n) and whilst 'the Ideas of primary Qualities of bodies. are resemblances of them.... | |
 | Donald D Hoffman - 2000 - 324 pages
...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...Texture, and Motion of their insensible parts, as Colours, Sounds, Tastes, etc. These I call secondary Qualities. Here Locke asserts that, to our minds,... | |
 | C. J. McCracken, I. C. Tipton - 2000 - 314 pages
...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...texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, etc. These I call secondary qualities. To these might be added a third sort,... | |
 | Timm Lampert - 2000 - 398 pages
...Secondary § 10- Secondly, such qualities which in qualities. truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by...figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, äs colour, sounds, tastes, &c. these I call secondary qualities. To these might be added a third sort,... | |
 | Jeffrey Foss - 2000 - 244 pages
...redness and sweetness are ...such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities. (1690, p. 67) Like all the others who contributed to the metaphysical foundations of the new science,... | |
 | George Joseph Seidel - 2000 - 200 pages
...secondary qualities are "nothing in the objects themselves." The secondary qualities in the objects are but "powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities" (Essay II, 8, 9 ff.). They "excite" or produce different ideas in us. The idea of the pain I feel when... | |
 | Anthony Gottlieb - 2000 - 490 pages
...the secondary, sensory qualities - such as colour or smell - were 'nothing in the Objects themselves, but Powers to produce various Sensations in us by their primary Qualities'. Modern science has kept the idea of a basic set of precisely measurable properties in terms of which... | |
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