Full Idea
The seventeenth century is often said to have bequeathed us three ways of thinking about sensible qualities: either in reductive microphysical terms, or as internal phenomenal states, or else as powers or dispositions.
Gist of Idea
17th C qualities are either microphysical, or phenomenal, or powers
Source
Robert Pasnau (Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 [2011], 23.1)
Book Reference
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.519
A Reaction
Pasnau goes on to claim that no one in the 17th century believed the third one. I take it to be a very new, and totally wonderful and correct, view.