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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 75
by John Locke - 1836 - 566 pages
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Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Books II and IV (with Omissions)

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...
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A Student's History of Philosophy

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...texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colors, sounds, tastes, etc., these I call secondary qualities." 1 Bk. II, Chap. VII, 10. Now, whereas...
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David Hume's kenleer en ethiek: Eerste, inleidend deel. Van Bacon tot Hume

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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The Library of Original Sources: Advance in knowledge, 1650-1800

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 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...
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A Short History of Philosophy

Archibald Browning Drysdale Alexander - 1908 - 640 pages
...original or primary qualities, and include solidity, extension, figure, motion, number. " Secondly, such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the...their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, etc., these I call secondary qualities." Now, while " the ideas of AP Q primary qualities of bodies...
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The Aesthetic Experience: Its Nature and Function in Epistemology

William Davis Furry - 1908 - 434 pages
...existing in the bodies themselves. These are the so-called secondary qualities which according to Locke are "nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by certain modifications of their primary qualities." His real contribution to the philosophic thought...
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Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy ...

1908 - 768 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...
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The Science-history of the Universe, Volume 10

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 334 pages
...become insensible, they must retain still each of them all those qualities. Secondary qualities. — Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the...figure, texture and motion of their insensible parts, as colors, sounds, tastes, etc., these I call secondary qualities. In summing his discussion of substances...
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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

John Grier Hibben - 1910 - 334 pages
...to produce simple ideas in us, viz., solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, number. Secondly, such qualities which, in truth, are nothing in the...their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, etc. These I call secondary qualities." 1 The primary qualities, inasmuch as they do fairly represent...
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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

John Grier Hibben - 1910 - 340 pages
...to produce simple ideas in us, viz., solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, number. Secondly, such qualities which, in truth, are nothing in the...various sensations in us by their primary qualities, /'. e., by the bulk, figure, texture and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes,...
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