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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER VIII
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Secondary Qualities twofold; first, immediately perceivable; secondly, mediately perceivable.
To conclude.

Beside those before-mentioned primary qualities in bodies, viz.

bulk, figure, extension, number, and motion of their solid parts; all the rest, whereby we take notice of bodies, and distinguish them one from another, are nothing else but several powers in them, depending on those primary qualities; whereby they are fitted, either by immediately operating on our bodies to produce several different ideas in us; or else, by operating on other bodies, so to change their primary qualities as to render them capable of producing ideas in us different from what before they did.

The former of these, I think, may be called secondary qualities IMMEDIATELY PERCEIVABLE: the latter, secondary qualities, MEDIATELY PERCEIVABLE..


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