These I call original or primary qualities of body, which I think we may observe to produce simple ideas in us, viz. solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. §10. Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves,... An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 115by John Locke - 1813Full view - About this book
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 626 pages
...smells, tastes, sounds, etc., which, whatever reality we by mistake may attribute to them, are, in truth, nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us ; and depend on the qualities before mentioned. " The ideas of Primary qualities of bodies are resemblances... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 584 pages
...smells, tastes, sounds, etc., which, whatever reality we by mistake may attribute to them, are, in truth, nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us ; and depend on the qualities before mentioned. " The ideas of Primary qualities of bodies are resemblances... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1862 - 584 pages
...smells, tastes, sounds, etc., which, whatever reality we by mistake may attribute to them, are, in truth, nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us ; and depend on the qualities before mentioned. " The ideas of Primary qualities of bodies arc resemblances... | |
| Thomas Hughes - First philosophy - 1865 - 242 pages
...simple ideas in us; namely, solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number." Speaking again of secondary qualities,—" Secondly, such qualities,...which, in truth, are nothing in the objects themselves, bnt powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities,»'. «., by the bulk, figure,... | |
| Thomas Hughes - 1865 - 230 pages
...advance this creed.* When once * " These I call original or primary qualities of body," says Locke ; " which, I think, we may observe to produce simple ideas in us ; namely, solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number." Speaking again of secondary qualities,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1893 - 464 pages
...fail to come upon the law ; hence his " secondary qualities " of objects, which he affirmed to be " nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us" though he considered certain " primary qualities " — bulk, extension, figure, motion, rest, number... | |
| James Gracey Murphy - Brain - 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... | |
| Stephen M. Lanigan - Aesthetics - 1873 - 238 pages
...though less than to make itself singly be perceived ly our senses These I call original or D primary qualities of body, which I think we may observe to produce simple ideas in us by solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number.' Other attributes, which he calls secondary... | |
| Robert Jardine - Consciousness - 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
...perceived by our senses.* (Sect. 9.) These he calls REAL, ORIGINAL, or PRIMARY Qualities of body. 2°. Such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects...various sensations in us by their primary qualities. (Sect. 10.) These he calls SECONDARY QUALITIES ; they are usually called SENSIBLE Qualities. 3°. The... | |
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