 The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its primary qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses, differently from what it did before....  The Life of John Locke - Page 111by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Robert Stodart Wyld - Mind and body - 1875 - 590 pages
...ideas of several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, etc. " Third, the power that is in a body to make a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body. Thus, the sun has a power to melt wax white, and fire to make lead fluid. " The first are resemblances... | |
 | Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 pages
...qualities. (Sect. 10.) These he calls SECONDARY QUALITIES ; they are usually called SENSIBLE Qualities. 3°. The POWER that is in any body, by reason of the particular...on our senses differently from what it did before. f (Sect. 23.) * Cf. chap. iv. , sect. I. t Cf. chap. xxiii., sect. 9. Dean Mansel, while noticing that... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities. Thirdly. The power that ia in any body, by reason of the particular constitution...what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make waz white, and fire, to make lead fluid. These are usually called " powers." The first of these, as... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - Psychology - 1883 - 738 pages
...and so forth, these I call secondary qualities." With these secondary qualities Locke classed also "The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...power to make wax white and fire to make lead fluid" (" Essay," bk. ii. chap. viii.). Elsewhere Locke adds to the primary qualities situation, and texture,... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - Philosophy - 1885 - 580 pages
...smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities, (b) The power that is in any bod) 7 , by reason of the particular constitution of its primary...and motion of another body, as to make it operate differently on our senses from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - Psychology - 1886 - 708 pages
...so forth, — these I call secondary qualities." With these secondary qualities Locke classed also "the power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." Elsewhere Locke adds to the primary qualities situation and texture, or consistency. Comparing Locke... | |
 | Thomas Case - Cognition - 1888 - 434 pages
...several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities. ' Thirdly, the power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid. These are usually called powers.' J The same undercurrent of ontology reappears in the admission of... | |
 | Thomas Case - Cognition - 1888 - 442 pages
...several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities. ' Thirdly, the power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...its primary qualities, to make such a change in the bull; figure, te.rture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1890 - 598 pages
...ideas of several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities. (6) The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...and motion of another body, as to make it operate differently on our senses from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1891 - 176 pages
...several colors, sounds, smells, tastes, etc. These are usually called sensible qualities. Thirdly. The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...power to make wax white, and fire, to make lead fluid. These are usually called " powers." SOME FUNCTIONS OF MIND INVOLVED IN , HAVING SIMPLE IDEAS. /. Perception.... | |
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