References
- Reid , Thomas . Philosophical Works Fourth Edition, I, p. 140.
- Ibid. 140
- Ibid. 140
- Ibid. 141
- I have argued elsewhere that Locke's arguments for the rejection of the ancient hypothesis which I present here, combined with certain other Lockian doctrines, makes plausible the claim that Locke thought that secondary qualities are qualities of bodies and not simply ideas, the long tradition of interpretation not withstanding. I cannot begin to take up that argument here but see my paper, “Locke's Primary-Secondary Quality Dictinction,” forthcoming.
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Such references in the text of the paper refer to by John Locke. For example (II.viii.10) refers to Book II, chapter viii, paragraph 10 of the Essay.
- These arguments for assimilating secondary qualities and mere powers would be unintelligible unless the primary-secondary quality distinction corresponded to the distinction between communicated qualities and produced qualities.
- This paper was prepared with the assistance of a S. U. N. Y. VAC/JAC Faculty Research Fellowship.