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Single Idea 16924
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique
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Full Idea
I also count as mere appearances, in addition to [heat, colour, taste], the remaining qualities of bodies which are called primariae, extension, place, and space in general, with all that depends on it (impenetrability or materiality, shape etc.).
Gist of Idea
I count the primary features of things (as well as the secondary ones) as mere appearances
Source
Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 289 n.II)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic', ed/tr. Lucas,Peter G. [Manchester UP 1971], p.46
A Reaction
He sides with Berkeley and Hume against Locke and Boyle. He denies being an idealist (Idea 16923), so it seems to me that Kant might be described as a 'phenomenalist'.
Related Idea
Idea 16923
I admit there are bodies outside us [Kant]
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[criticism of the primary/secondary distinction]:
12721
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Light, heat and colour are apparent qualities, and so are motion, figure and extension
[Leibniz]
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19358
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Colour and pain must express the nature of their stimuli, without exact resemblance
[Leibniz]
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3934
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A mite would see its own foot as large, though we would see it as tiny
[Berkeley]
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3935
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The apparent size of an object varies with its distance away, so that can't be a property of the object
[Berkeley]
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3937
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'Solidity' is either not a sensible quality at all, or it is clearly relative to our senses
[Berkeley]
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3940
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Distance is not directly perceived by sight
[Berkeley]
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6726
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No one can, by abstraction, conceive extension and motion of bodies without sensible qualities
[Berkeley]
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6727
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Figure and extension seem just as dependent on the observer as heat and cold
[Berkeley]
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6728
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Motion is in the mind, since swifter ideas produce an appearance of slower motion
[Berkeley]
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2239
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If secondary qualities (e.g. hardness) are in the mind, so are primary qualities like extension
[Hume]
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16924
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I count the primary features of things (as well as the secondary ones) as mere appearances
[Kant]
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5679
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We can't grasp the separation of quality types, or what a primary-quality world would be like
[Dancy,J]
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5680
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For direct realists the secondary and primary qualities seem equally direct
[Dancy,J]
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3885
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We only conceive of primary qualities as attached to secondary qualities
[Scruton]
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3910
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If primary and secondary qualities are distinct, what has the secondary qualities?
[Scruton]
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7053
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Treating colour as light radiation has the implausible result that tomatoes are not red
[Heil]
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9308
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If subjective and objective begin to merge, then so do primary and secondary qualities
[Svendsen]
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