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... motion and rest cannot qualify as primary qualities . Locke admits that motions which are very swift or very slow are often unperceived ; 3 thus he cannot consistently maintain that our ideas of rest and motion are resemblances whose ...
... motion and rest cannot qualify as primary qualities . Locke admits that motions which are very swift or very slow are often unperceived ; 3 thus he cannot consistently maintain that our ideas of rest and motion are resemblances whose ...
Page 91
... motion itself , that motion is rather a passion than an action in it . For , when the ball obeys the stroke of a billiard stick , it is not any action of the ball but bare passion . Also when by impulse it sets another ball in motion ...
... motion itself , that motion is rather a passion than an action in it . For , when the ball obeys the stroke of a billiard stick , it is not any action of the ball but bare passion . Also when by impulse it sets another ball in motion ...
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... motion of parts produce a yellow colour , a sweet taste , or a sharp sound , that we can by no means conceive how any size , figure , or motion of any particles , can possibly produce in us the idea of any colour , taste , or sound ...
... motion of parts produce a yellow colour , a sweet taste , or a sharp sound , that we can by no means conceive how any size , figure , or motion of any particles , can possibly produce in us the idea of any colour , taste , or sound ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
The Aim and Method of Lockes Theory | 23 |
Ideas and Experience | 41 |
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