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Ideas for 'Counterpart theory and Quant. Modal Logic', 'Aristotelian commentaries' and 'Letter to Herodotus'

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary

16720	Secondary qualities come from temperaments and proportions of primary qualities [Conimbricense]
	Full Idea: Colors, flavours, smells, and other secondary qualities arise from the various temperaments and proportions of the primary qualities.
	From: Collegium Conimbricense (Aristotelian commentaries [1595], I.10.4 Gen&C), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 21.2
	A reaction: This is a bit more subtle than merely mixing the primary qualities. What about the powers of the primary qualities? Presumably that is the 'temperaments'?

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities

14037	Atoms only have shape, weight and size, and the properties which accompany shape [Epicurus]
	Full Idea: One must believe that the atoms bring with them none of the qualities of things which appear except shape, weight, and size and the properties which necessarily accompany shape.
	From: Epicurus (Letter to Herodotus [c.293 BCE], 54)
	A reaction: This appears to be fairly precisely a claim that atoms only have primary qualities, though that terminology only came in in the seventeenth century. I take the view to be more or less correct.