...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.] The first of these, as has been said, I think may be properly called...

...several colours, 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 " (II. viii., §23). In a subsequent passage the power to receive alterations...

...several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called s&isible qualities. TJlirdly, the power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...constitution of its primary qualities, to make such a 1 If theconstitution of the insensible parts were perceptible (if we had ' microscopical nye!j '),...

...of bulk, texture and motion of particles to produce a new consistency in wax. More explicity, it is the "power that is in any body by reason of the particular...on our senses differently from what it did before." * Taken strictly and literally, then, there is first a distinction between properties which are inherently,...

...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. The first of these, as has been said, I think, may be properly called...

...cause us to see colour, have smells, tastes, etc., and (c] powers which are the abilities a body has 'by reason of the particular constitution of its primary...on our senses differently from what it did before' (2.8.23). An alternate vocabulary for (b) and (c) is, respectively, secondary qualities immediately...

...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. The first of these, as has been said, I think, may be properly called...

...insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, etc." (§10). The third kind are powers in a body to change "the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another...on our senses differently from what it did before" (§23). Locke also complains (as Helmholtz will below) that the similarity between the second and third...

...there is a palpable omission here, for it omits those powers by which one body operates upon another; thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid (M'Cosh, p. 118; quoted at EH, p. 201). In a similar vein, WH Smith asserted that 'The qualities by...

...and thereby produce in us the different ideas of several Colours, Sounds, Smells, Tasts, etc.” 3) “The Power that is in any Body, by Reason of the...our Senses, differently from what it did before.” 9 These three sorts of qualities are called “primary qualities,” “secondary qualities,” and,...