 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
 | Else Wentscher - 1921 - 406 pages
...Werke werden zitiert nach Fraser, Oxford MDCCCXCIV. wir sie zuschreiben, nicht aufzufinden, „they are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us." (Buch II Kap. VIII § 14.) Indem Locke sie dennoch „secondary qualities" nennt, leistet er der mißverständlichen... | |
 | Beatrice Edgell - 1924 - 186 pages
...8, § 9.) The secondary qualities of objects, colours, smells, tastes, and sounds, . ' are in truth nothing in the objects themselves ; but powers to produce various sensations in us ; and depend upon those primary qualities, viz. bulk, figure, texture, and motion of parts. From whence... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1926 - 622 pages
...produce simple ideas in us, viz., solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects...texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c. These I call secondary qualities. To these might be added a third sort,... | |
 | John Locke - 1928 - 436 pages
...produce simple ideas in us, viz. solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects...texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c. these I call secondary qualities. To these might be added a third sort,... | |
 | Vere Claiborne Chappell - 1994 - 354 pages
...discussion of our commonsense view of the causality of bodies is that secondary qualities "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" (E II.viii.14:... | |
 | Michel Meyer - 1995 - 326 pages
...observe to produce simple ideas in us, viz. solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. 2dly such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the...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... | |
 | Tad Schmaltz - 1996 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | David Halliburton - 1997 - 428 pages
..."solidity, extension, f1gure, motion or rest, or numbers." The more familiar features of worldly things, "qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects...texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c." are correspondingly reduced, as in Galileo, to the status of secondary... | |
 | John Hospers - 1997 - 294 pages
...figure, motion or rest, and number. Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the object themselves but powers to produce various sensations...sounds, tastes, etc. . . . These I call secondary qualities.4 What then of secondary qualities — do they exist only in the mind? If we all agree that... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 pages
...They produce ideas in us that actually resemble their causes. Not so with secondary qualities, which 'are nothing in the objects themselves but powers...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... | |
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