PHIL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Solidity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1050
• Professor: Patricia Sheridan

Document Summary

Locke is a kind of skeptic in this regard. Powers and qualities: simple ideas seem to be caused in our minds. And they seem to indicate perceived qualities or properties things have: by qualities we really mean powers bodies have to produce ideas in us, so , to say that a lemon is yellow means: I. e. something in the world produces the idea of yellow, the colour experience, in our minds. Do any of our ideas resemble objects in the world: primary qualities. These seem to resemble qualities of the objects themselves. These seem to be a function of our experience; and not in the objects themselves. What does he have in mind here: colours, sounds, textures, tastes, smells, secondary qualities are by- products of the interaction of primary qualities with my senses -they are powers in the object, just not resembling of them. The mind is active once it gets simple ideas to work on.