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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S26
Section 164 of 1,114
Canonical reference B2.C8.S26
English
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To conclude. Beside those before-mentioned primary qualities in bodies, viz. bulk, figure, extension, number, and motion of their solid parts; all the rest, whereby we take notice of bodies, and distinguish them one from another, are nothing else but several powers in them, depending on those primary qualities; whereby they are fitted, either by immediately operating on our bodies to produce several different ideas in us; or else, by operating on other bodies, so to change their primary qualities as to render them capable of producing ideas in us different from what before they did. The former of these, I think, may be called secondary qualities IMMEDIATELY PERCEIVABLE: the latter, secondary qualities, MEDIATELY PERCEIVABLE.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Enfin, excepté ces prémiéres Qualitez qui ſont réellement dans les Corps, je veux dire la groſſeur, la figure, l’étenduë, le nombre & le mouvement de leurs parties ſolides, tout le reſte par où nous connoiſſons les Corps & les diſtinguons les uns des autres, n’eſt autre choſe qu’un différent pouvoir qui eſt en eux, & qui dépend de ces prémiéres qualitez, par le moyen desquelles ils ſont capables de produire en nous pluſieurs différentes Idées, en agiſſant immédiatement ſur nos Corps, ou d’agir ſur d’autres Corps en changeant leurs prémiéres qualitez, & par-là de les rendre capable de faire naître en nous des idées différentes de celles que ces Corps y excitoient auparavant. On peut appeler les prémiéres de ces deux puiſſances, des ſecondes Qualitez qu’on apperçoit immédiatement, & les derniéres, des ſecondes Qualitez qu’on apperçoit médiatement.
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Degrees of knowledge and probability
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Ideas from sensation and reflection
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Impermanence
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Impressions and assent
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Knowledge
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Nominal and real essence
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Personal identity and consciousness
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Primary and secondary qualities
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Reason
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Simple and complex ideas
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