 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
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...the latter operate on our senses in a different way from the way in which they previously operated. 'Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid.'1 But we can confine our attention to primary and secondary qualities. Locke supposes that in... | |
 | Babette Babich, Robert S. Cohen - Philosophy - 1999 - 408 pages
...quality of solidity distinguishing it from empty space and constituting the basis of its "powers" to make "a change in the bulk, figure, texture and motion of another body." Nietzsche takes Boscovich to have "refuted" mechanist atomism (BGE 12), and he assimilates Boscovichean... | |
 | Timm Lampert - Art - 2000 - 398 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...qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texturt, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses, differently from what it... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - Philosophy - 2002 - 1002 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. The first of these, as has been said, I think may be properly called... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 2003 - 452 pages
...the latter operate on our senses in a different way from the way in which they previously operated. 'Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid.'1 But we can confine our attention to primary and secondary qualities. Locke supposes that in... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 466 pages
...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. The first of these, as has been said, I think may be properly called... | |
 | the late Wesley C. Salmon - Science - 2005 - 304 pages
...tastes, &c." (bk. II, chap. 8, sec. 23; my emphasis). Locke further characterizes as a tertiary quality "the power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...to make wax white, and fire, to make lead fluid." Such qualities thus influence the insensible primary qualities that are responsible for the secondary... | |
 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - Philosophy - 2007 - 897 pages
...of several colors, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities. Thirdly, 124 125 to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid. These are usually called powers. The first... | |
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