Full Idea
Colors, flavours, smells, and other secondary qualities arise from the various temperaments and proportions of the primary qualities.
Gist of Idea
Secondary qualities come from temperaments and proportions of primary qualities
Source
Collegium Conimbricense (Aristotelian commentaries [1595], I.10.4 Gen&C), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 21.2
Book Reference
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.462
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'?