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Single Idea 16924

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique]

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 Reference

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]