Philosophical concept
Primary and secondary qualities
Primary qualities belong to bodies in Locke’s analysis, while secondary qualities are powers to produce particular sensations in perceivers.
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Primary qualities belong to bodies in Locke’s analysis, while secondary qualities are powers to produce particular sensations in perceivers.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,114 passages across 1 works, including An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
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- An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 1,114 passages