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Single Idea 3901
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
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Full Idea
Touch seems to deliver a purely primary-quality account of the world.
Clarification
Primary qualities are in the object, not the perceiver
Gist of Idea
Touch only seems to reveal primary qualities
Source
Roger Scruton (Modern Philosophy:introduction and survey [1994], 24)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'Modern Philosophy: introduction and survey' [Sinclair-Stevenson 1994], p.341
A Reaction
Interesting, though a little over-confident. It seems occasionally possible for touch to be an illusion.
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[qualities considered independent of observation]:
1728
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Many objects of sensation are common to all the senses
[Aristotle]
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14037
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Atoms only have shape, weight and size, and the properties which accompany shape
[Epicurus]
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16718
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Primary qualities are the cause of all the other sensible qualities
[Albertus Magnus]
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16719
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The primary qualities are mixed to cause secondary qualities
[Burley]
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6490
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For Descartes, objects have one primary quality, which is geometrical
[Descartes, by Robinson,H]
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6725
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Locke believes matter is an inert, senseless substance, with extension, figure and motion
[Locke, by Berkeley]
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15982
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Qualities are named as primary if they are needed for scientific explanation
[Locke, by Alexander,P]
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12479
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Primary qualities produce simple ideas, such as solidity, extension, motion and number
[Locke]
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12480
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Ideas of primary qualities resemble their objects, but those of secondary qualities don't
[Locke]
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7049
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In Locke, the primary qualities are also powers
[Locke, by Heil]
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3933
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Primary qualities (such as shape, solidity, mass) are held to really exist, unlike secondary qualities
[Berkeley]
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23637
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Primary qualities are the object of mathematics
[Reid]
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5466
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Primary qualities are number, figure, size, texture, motion, configuration, impenetrability and (?) mass
[Ellis]
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22414
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You don't need to know how a square thing looks or feels to understand squareness
[McGinn]
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22423
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Touch doesn't provide direct experience of primary qualities, because touch feels temperature
[McGinn]
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22426
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We can perceive objectively, because primary qualities are not mind-created
[McGinn]
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3901
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Touch only seems to reveal primary qualities
[Scruton]
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6497
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We say objects possess no intrinsic secondary qualities because physicists don't need them
[Robinson,H]
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7299
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Primary qualities can be described mathematically, unlike secondary qualities
[Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]
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7300
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An object cannot remain an object without its primary qualities
[Cardinal/Hayward/Jones]
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19647
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The aspects of objects that can be mathematical allow it to have objective properties
[Meillassoux]
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