 | Stephen M. Lanigan - 1873 - 238 pages
...Other attributes, which he calls secondary qualities, he thus describes : ' Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers...colours, sounds, tastes, &c.; these I call secondary qualities.'5 In this passage Locke has not distinctly stated the essential difference between these... | |
 | 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
...(Sect. 9.) These he calls REAL, ORIGINAL, or PRIMARY Qualities of body. 2°. Such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers...various sensations in us by their primary qualities. (Sect. 10.) These he calls SECONDARY QUALITIES ; they are usually called SENSIBLE Qualities. 3°. The... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...figure, motion or rest, and number. 10. Secondary qualities. — Secondly. Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers...various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ia, by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, M colours, sounds, tastes,... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - 1882 - 496 pages
...us; viz, solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. Secondly, such qualities which, in truth, are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us, ... as colors, sounds, tastes, etc., these I call secondary qualities Ideas of primary qualities of... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - 1883 - 740 pages
...us, viz., solidity, extension, figure, motion, or rest, and number. Secondly, such qualities as, in truth, are nothing in the objects themselves but powers...various sensations in us by their primary qualities, that is, by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, such as colors, sounds,... | |
 | 1884 - 928 pages
...ideas in us, viz : extension, figure, motion or rest, and number." " Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers...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,... | |
 | E. Janes - 1884 - 224 pages
...as solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number, and secondly, " such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers...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,... | |
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... nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us, and depend on those primary qualities, viz. 
