...3, sec. 14. 54. In fact, the confusion reaches its height when Locke speaks of "[S]uch [secondary] Qualities, which in truth are nothing in the Objects...various Sensations in us by their primary Qualities." Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk. 2, chap. 8, par. io. 55. See Hume, Treatise, bk....

...he incorporated a role for primary qualities (Essay 2.8, 4.3. 1 1-14). Secondary qualities, he says, 'are nothing in the Objects themselves, but Powers...various Sensations in us by their primary Qualities' (Essay 2.8.10). Antecedents are found in Galileo (eg Assayer, 309-12); Boyle (eg Experiments amI Considerations...

...between the primary qualities of bodies which are their inalienable attributes, and their secondary qualities which " in truth are nothing in the objects...themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us ", he did no more than follow the example of Galileo who had made just the same distinction in a famous...

...was but one before; all which distinct masses, reckoned as so many distinct bodies, after division make a certain number. These I call original or primary...extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. §10. Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce...

...was but one before; all which distinct masses, reckoned as so many distinct bodies, after division, make a certain number. These I call original or primary...solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce...

...has solidity, extension, figure and mobility. If it is divided, each part retains these qualities. 'These I call original or primary qualities of body,...viz. solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number.'2 Besides these primary qualities there are also secondary qualities. The latter are 'nothing...

...bodies are, First, such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what state soever it be, [...] These I call original or primary qualities of body,...we may observe to produce simple ideas in us, viz. soligity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. [10.] Secondly, such qualities which in truth...

...but one before; all which distinct masses, reckoned as so many distinct bodies, after division, makes a certain number. These I call original or primary...various sensations in us by their primary qualities, i. e,, by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes,...

...of the objects in question, such as solidity, shape, form, extension and motion. Secondary qualities "are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers...various sensations in us by their primary qualities..." (Locke, l96l 25). For example, let us look at what happens when we place a stick in water. When it...

...on, till the parts become insensible, they must retain still each of them all those qualities. . . . These I call original or primary Qualities of Body,...Extension, Figure, Motion, or Rest, and Number. 10. 2dly, Such Qualities, which in truth are nothing in the Objects themselves, but Powers to produce various...