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'Events and Their Names', 'De Re and De Dicto' and 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)'
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / a. Qualities in perception
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A 'quality' is a power to produce an idea in our minds [Locke]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary
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Colours, smells and tastes are ideas; the secondary qualities have no colour, smell or taste [Locke, by Alexander,P]
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Secondary qualities are powers of complex primary qualities to produce sensations in us [Locke]
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Hands can report conflicting temperatures, but not conflicting shapes [Locke]
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We can't know how primary and secondary qualities connect together [Locke]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
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Locke believes matter is an inert, senseless substance, with extension, figure and motion [Locke, by Berkeley]
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Qualities are named as primary if they are needed for scientific explanation [Locke, by Alexander,P]
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Primary qualities produce simple ideas, such as solidity, extension, motion and number [Locke]
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Ideas of primary qualities resemble their objects, but those of secondary qualities don't [Locke]
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In Locke, the primary qualities are also powers [Locke, by Heil]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
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In my view Locke's 'textures' are groups of corpuscles which are powers (rather than 'having' powers) [Locke, by Alexander,P]
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I suspect that Locke did not actually believe colours are 'in the mind' [Locke, by Heil]
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Secondary qualities are simply the bare powers of an object [Locke]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
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Molyneux's Question: could a blind man distinguish cube from sphere, if he regained his sight? [Locke]
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