PHL210Y5 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 (Locke) - qualities
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Audio recording started: 10:08 am january 10, 2017. Qualities - powers to produce ideas (here: in bodies) Primary qualities: all bodies have them; perceived by more than one sense (extension, shape, motion, size) Secondary: perceived by one sense not all (sound, colors, smells, tactile qualities) Ideas of secondary qualities do not resemble qualities in bodies. Terms of secondary qualities (red, cold, etc. ) can refer to a. b. c. Power in body to produce ideas of red. Configuration of primary qualities in virtue of which a body produces an idea of red. Tactile qualities powers in bodies to produce qualities in other bodies (e. g. , heat of the sun, melts ice) Arguments to defend his view by locke; he liked the view mechanistic and corpuscularian ; listen to the fire example: the fire causes pain but pain does not refer to the pain. a. Suppose fire in a living room, when you get close it get hurt.
