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Page 154
... colour , taste , or any other secondary quality . Since an object's colour results from the primary qualities of its component particles and their consequent texture , single corpuscles can have no colour . But though imperceptible ...
... colour , taste , or any other secondary quality . Since an object's colour results from the primary qualities of its component particles and their consequent texture , single corpuscles can have no colour . But though imperceptible ...
Page 162
... colour in the dark ? ... [ W ] hiteness or redness are not in it at any time , but such a texture , that hath the power to produce such a sensation in us . [ II.viii . 19 ] The question whether there are colours in the dark was 162 Locke.
... colour in the dark ? ... [ W ] hiteness or redness are not in it at any time , but such a texture , that hath the power to produce such a sensation in us . [ II.viii . 19 ] The question whether there are colours in the dark was 162 Locke.
Page 163
... coloured in the dark ' while the others asserted ' colour to be an inherent quality ' . Telling us that the controversy had recently been revived and ' hotly agitated amongst the moderns ' Boyle unsurprisingly aligns himself with the ...
... coloured in the dark ' while the others asserted ' colour to be an inherent quality ' . Telling us that the controversy had recently been revived and ' hotly agitated amongst the moderns ' Boyle unsurprisingly aligns himself with the ...
Contents
Chapter 2 | 53 |
Chapter 4 | 149 |
Bibliography of Books and Articles referred to more than once | 190 |
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