 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
 | John Locke - 1891 - 176 pages
...us, viz., solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. Secondary qualities. — Secondly. Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the...various sensations in us by their primary qualities, /'. e., by colors, sounds, tastes, etc., these I call secondary qualities. To these might be added... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1884 - 872 pages
...observe to produce simple ideas in us, viz : extension, figure, motion or rest, and number." " Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects...various sensations in us by their primary qualities, that is, by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colors, sounds, tastes,... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 692 pages
...Secondly, such qualities which, iaJauth. are nothing- in $? objects themaelvesJtajt Eftwetsf to jyoduce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion ef their insensible parts4, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c. ^These I call secondary qualities 2. /^To... | |
 | Sir Thomas Dyke Acland - 1896 - 274 pages
...perceived, as light in the eye, sound in the ear, flavour or odour by taste or smell " Such qualities are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to...texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sound, tastes, etc. These I call secondary qualities." * This supposition of a power in things... | |
 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - 1902 - 432 pages
...secondary qualities, such as colours, sounds, tastes ; these secondary qualities have no reality. " Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the...various sensations in us by their primary qualities . . . the ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really... | |
 | James Macbride Sterrett - 1904 - 136 pages
...extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. ' ' Secondary qualities, on the other hand, "are in truth nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us. ' ' That is, our ideas of colors, sounds, tastes, etc., are not copies of things. We do not know the... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 424 pages
...the like sensible qualities; which, whatever reality we by mistake attribute to them, are in truth nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us, and depend on thdse primary qualities, viz., bulk, figure, texture, and motion of parts [as I have... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 382 pages
...the like sensible qualities; which, whatever reality we by mistake attribute to them, are in truth nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us, and depend on those primary qualities, viz., bulk, figure, texture, and motion of parts [as I have... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 536 pages
...original, or primary qualities, and include solidity, extension, figure, motion, and number. " Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects...sounds, tastes, etc., these I call secondary qualities." 1 Bk. II, Chap. VII, 10. Now, whereas " the ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of... | |
 | Arthur Joseph de Sopper - 1907 - 230 pages
...Uit een en ander concludeert Locke, dat deze „qualities", die hij „secondary qualities" noemt, „are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us" 6 ), • en dat „the ideas produced in us by these secondary qualities have no resemblance of them... | |
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