 | Albert Edwin Avey - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical - 1927 - 416 pages
...of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas existing in the bodies themselves. They are in the bodies we denominate from them, only a power to produce those sensations in us." i But with the introduction of this limitation in the process of copying the theory readily becomes... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 428 pages
...of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas existing in the bodies themselves. They are in the bodies, we denominate from them, only a power to produce...parts in the bodies themselves, which we call so. The particular bulk, number, figure, and motion of the parts of fire, or snow, are really in them,... | |
 | William Keith Chambers Guthrie - Philosophy - 1962 - 582 pages
...Kal 6o^&jeTa1 and by Galen with irp6s f|pas, is not far from Locke's phrase 'in idea" in the sentence 'What is sweet, blue or warm in idea, is but the certain bulk, figure and motion of the insensible parts of the bodies themselves, which we call so' (Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Bk. II, viii, 1... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas, existing in the bodies themselves. They are, in the bodies we denominate from them, only a power to produce...parts, in the bodies themselves, which we call so. II, xxiii, 11. The now secondary Qualities of Bodies would disappear, if we could discover the primary... | |
 | Paul J. Olscamp - History - 1970 - 258 pages
...qualities do not, because in the bodies to which we attribute them, they are "only a power to produce these sensations in us: and what is sweet, blue, or warm...motion of the insensible parts in the bodies themselves . . ."10 But qualities cannot subsist by themselves according to this theory. There must be some "substratum",... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1970 - 260 pages
...to anything in bodies, there is nothing like those ideas existing 'in the bodies themselves' (15). What is 'sweet, blue, or warm in idea is but the certain...of the insensible parts in the bodies themselves'. If we take away the sensations of a perceiver, these qualities or ideas 'vanish and cease, and are... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1977 - 364 pages
...of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas existing in the bodies themselves. They are in the bodies, we denominate from them, only a power to produce...parts in the bodies themselves, which we call so. Flame is denominated hot and light; snow, white and cold; and manna, white and sweet, from the ideas... | |
 | Colin Murray Turbayne - Philosophy - 355 pages
...more clearly: There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are, in the Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce...Parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so. (2, 8, 15) The corpuscular substructure of a body is also identified by Locke with its essence in the... | |
 | Margaret J. Osler, Paul Lawrence Farber - Religion - 2002 - 372 pages
...produced in us by these secondary qualities have no resemblance of them at all. . . . They are, in the bodies we denominate from them, only a power to produce...parts in the bodies themselves, which we call so. 11 There has been much discussion as to what Locke might have meant here by "resemblance." 12 It seems... | |
 | Peter Alexander - Science - 1985 - 362 pages
...will explain why aqua regia has that power, what accounts for that power. In II.viii.15 Locke says 'what is Sweet, Blue, or Warm in Idea, is but the...Parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so'. Boyle says that the power of a key to turn a lock is nothing distinct from its shape and size, which... | |
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... 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 themselves. They are, in the bodies... 
