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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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The Human Intellect: with an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul

Noah Porter - Intellect - 1873 - 730 pages
...supposes he means divisibility of the constituent parts. The idrai of these qualities are raemblanca of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves. (c.) Secondary qualities are not essential to the idea of matter ; matter can be conceived to exist...
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The Elements of Intellectual Science: A Manual for Schools and Colleges

Noah Porter - Intellect - 1874 - 606 pages
...these " ideas " to their correspondent qualities or objects, he says: "The ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns...bodies themselves ; but the ideas produced in us by their secondary qualities havo no resemblance of them at all." He expressly 'liT.ii-'- knowledge of...
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A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...have by these an idea of the thing as it is in itself.' . . . Thus ' the ideas of primary qualities are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really...bodies themselves. But the ideas produced in us by the secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like them existing in...
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A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...have by these an idea of the thing as it is in itself.' . . . Thus 'the ideas of primary qualities are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really...bodies themselves. But the ideas produced in us by the secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like them existing in...
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The Elements of the Psychology of Cognition

Robert Jardine - Consciousness - 1874 - 338 pages
...qualities, by the operation of insensible particles on our senses. " The ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns...do really exist in the bodies themselves ; but the * ' Essay ,'bk. ii., eh. ii., § 2. CHAP. III. SECT. III. Primary qualities. Secondary qualities. CHAP....
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The Elements of Intellectual Science: A Manual for Schools and Colleges ...

Noah Porter - Intellect - 1874 - 592 pages
...or objects, ho says: "The idcas of primary qualities of bodies aro resemblances of them, and thcir patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves; but the ideas produced in us by thcir secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all." He expressly defines knowledge of every...
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An analysis of Locke's Essay on the human understanding, in the form of ...

Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 pages
...primary qualities are resemblances ; * of secondary, not " ? — The patterns of primary qualities really exist in the bodies themselves, but the ideas produced in us by secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas existing in...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Notes and Illustrations of ...

John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...not. — From whence I think it is easy to draw this observation, that the ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns...; but the ideas produced in us by these secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our ideaa existing in the bodies...
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Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Volumes 6-7

Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...them we have by then an idea of the thing as it is in itself. .... Thus the ideas of primary qualities are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really...bodies themselves. But the ideas produced in us by the secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like them existing in...
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Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the ..., Volume 1

Immanuel Kant - Causation - 1881 - 590 pages
...' ' The ideas of primary qualities of bodies are resemblances of them, and their patterns directly 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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