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" I think it easy to draw this observation, that the ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves; but the ideas produced in us by these secondary qualities have no resemblance... "
The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by D. Brewster - Page 85
by Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830
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Intentionalität und Konstitution: eine Einführung in Husserls Logische ...

Dan Zahavi - Intentionality (Philosophy) - 1992 - 164 pages
...wie eine Wirkung zu seiner Ursache (EC II.viii.23, II.xxiii.9). »..[T]he ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns...themselves; but the ideas produced in us by these secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas existing in the bodies...
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Hume’s Theory of Moral Judgment: A Study in the Unity of A Treatise of Human ...

W. Brand - Philosophy - 1992 - 200 pages
...us the sensations of colors, sounds and tastes. According to Locke, "The ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns...Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by the Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing...
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The Cambridge Companion to Locke

Vere Claiborne Chappell - Philosophy - 1994 - 354 pages
...further conclusion from this one. In the next section he says that "the Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns...themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all" (E II.viii.15: 137). This has been one of the most misunderstood...
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Reid and His French Disciples: Aesthetics and Metaphysics

James W. Manns - Philosophy - 1993 - 250 pages
...not an assertion that cohabits comfortably with the contention that "the ideas of primary qualities of bodies, are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves" (II, VIII, 15) in the absence of any secure mechanism for transforming these patterns into ideas. Reid...
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Representational Ideas: From Plato to Patricia Churchland

R. A. Watson - Philosophy - 1995 - 202 pages
...images — that resemble them with respect to these primary properties: "the ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves."4 Locke calls these properties qualities, but his use of "primary quality" is sometimes...
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The Mind and Its World

Gregory McCulloch - Education - 1995 - 244 pages
...found claiming that the ideas of 'solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number' (E:II,vii,9) are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves ... a circle or square are the same, whether in idea or existence, in the mind or in the [material...
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A Critical History of Western Philosophy: Greek, Medieval and Modern

Y. Masih - Philosophy - 1999 - 606 pages
...by their primary qualities' '.' They include colour, sounds, tastes etc. Again, 'primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them and their patterns...bodies themselves; but the ideas produced in us by the secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all.' Closely following this distinction, Locke...
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 5

Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...between our ideas of primary and those of secondary qualities. The former are resemblances of bodies, 'and their patterns do really exist in the bodies...themselves; but the ideas produced in us by these secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas existing in the bodies...
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Aristotle on Perception

Stephen Everson - Philosophy - 1997 - 332 pages
...sensations in us by their primary qualities' (Essay IL viii. 1n) and whilst 'the Ideas of primary Qualities of bodies. are resemblances of them. and their patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves.' the ideas 'produced in us by these Secondary Qualities. have no resemblance of them at all' (ibid....
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Ideas and Mechanism: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy

Margaret Dauler Wilson - Philosophy - 1999 - 550 pages
...in objects, with the affirmation that ideas of such "primary qualities" as size, shape, and motion "are Resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the objects themselves. . . ." His discussion makes clear that he intends to maintain that particular sense...
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