...them. Is this what Locke believes? The answer seems to be yes, for the secondary qualities: they are 'nothing in the Objects themselves, but Powers to produce various Sensations in us'. And it might look as though the answer is sometimes yes, for the tertiary qualities as well. The powers...

...(Descartes 1984: 8K 90. ^4-5; 1985: 29-31). Locke 1(1689] 1979: 135) defined secondary qualities as 'nothing in the objects themselves, but Powers to produce various Sensations in us by their primary Qualities'. Berkeley interpreted Locke as distinguishing (arbitrarily) between qualities...

...produce ideas in us that actually resemble their causes. Not so with secondary qualities, which 'are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities'. Qualities of the third kind act like secondary qualities, except that...

...rest and number. They are constantly found in the bodies. The secondary qualities, 'which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities' '.' They include colour, sounds, tastes etc. Again, 'primary qualities...

...sensible ideas in us (other than the ideas of primary qualities). Or, as Locke says, they are . . . nothing in the Objects themselves, but Powers to produce various Sensations in us by their primary Qualities, ie by the Bulk. Figure, Texture, and Motion of their insensible parts,...

...Berkeley on this topic. Here is how Locke defines secondary qualities: Such Qualities, which in truth are nothing in the Objects themselves, but Powers to produce various Sensations in us by their primary Qualities, ie by the Bulk, Figure, Texture, and Motion of their insensible parts.100...

...particles is objective, our reaction to sensations is subjective. Locke says that secondary qualities: "are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities" (ibid, Book 2, ch. 8, sect. 10). In chapter 12 of the same book, he informs...

...solidity, extension, figure, motion, or rest, and number. 10. Secondly, such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture and motion of their insensible parts, as...

...rest, and number.'2 Besides these primary qualities there are also secondary qualities. The latter are 'nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities'.3 Such are colours, sounds, tastes and odours. Locke also mentions tertiary...

...of motion or rest - and said that the secondary, sensory qualities - such as colour or smell - were 'nothing in the Objects themselves, but Powers to produce various Sensations in us by their primary Qualities'. Modern science has kept the idea of a basic set of precisely measurable...