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 Science-history of the Universe - Page 75by Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909Full view - About this book
| Sir William Hamilton - 1862 - 584 pages
...smells, tastes, sounds, etc., which, whatever reality we by mistake may attribute to them, are, in truth, nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us ; and depend on the qualities before mentioned. " The ideas of Primary qualities of bodies arc resemblances... | |
| Thomas Hughes - 1865 - 222 pages
...extension, figure, motion or rest, and number." Speaking again of secondary qualities, — " Secondly, such qualities, which, in truth, are nothing in the...their primary qualities, ie, by the bulk, figure, teiture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c., — these I call secondary... | |
| Thomas Hughes - 1865 - 230 pages
...extension, figure, motion or rest, and number." Speaking again of secondary qualities, — " Secondly, such qualities, which, in truth, are nothing in the...various sensations in us by their primary qualities, te, by the bulk, figure, teiture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes,... | |
| Thomas Hughes - 1865 - 242 pages
...objects themselves, bnt powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities,»'. «., by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c.,—these I call secondary qualities."— "Human Understanding," book ii.,... | |
| 1893 - 464 pages
...fail to come upon the law ; hence his " secondary qualities " of objects, which he affirmed to be " nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us" though he considered certain " primary qualities " — bulk, extension, figure, motion, rest, number... | |
| Stephen M. Lanigan - 1873 - 238 pages
...motion or rest, and number.' Other attributes, which he calls secondary qualities, he thus describes : ' Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the...texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c.; these I call secondary qualities.'5 In this passage Locke has not distinctly... | |
| James Gracey Murphy - 1873 - 360 pages
...and these are solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. " Secondly, qualities, which are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers...various sensations in us by their primary qualities. To these might be added a third sort, which are allowed to be barely powers," such as the power in... | |
| Noah Porter - 1873 - 730 pages
...Moreover, they are powors to produce various sensations in us by means of the primary qualities, t. «., by the bulk, figure, texture and motion of their insensible parts, as color*, stmnds, tastes, etc., etc. 11 The ideas [t. •'., sensations] produced in us by these secondary... | |
| Robert Jardine - 1874 - 338 pages
...inseparable from the conception of body, such as solidity, extension, figure, &c. ; and Second, those which are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers...various sensations in us by their primary qualities. Bodies produce ideas in us ; in the case of primary qualities, by impulse, and in the case of secondary... | |
| Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 pages
...perceived by our senses.* (Sect. 9.) These he calls REAL, ORIGINAL, or PRIMARY Qualities of body. 2°. Such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects...various sensations in us by their primary qualities. (Sect. 10.) These he calls SECONDARY QUALITIES ; they are usually called SENSIBLE Qualities. 3°. The... | |
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