Lexicon of Arguments

 

IV 409
Primary qualities/Locke: E.g. length, size, shape - secondary: e.g. color.
Secondary quality/Locke: do not resemble our ideas directly.
Putnam thesis: Kant has that what Locke said about secondary qualities extended to primary qualities.
Field: many say that today because the imaging theory is dead.
FieldVsPicture theory.
>Picture theory.
Locke: color is a force to affect us.
Putnam: this also applies to size, charge, mass,...etc.
Putnam: Putnam even extends this to properties of sensations. - But this force is not a noumenon, but the world itself (= Vs correspondence theory - ((s): Forces instead of objects).
>Noumenon, >Correspondence, >Correspondence theory.
Problem/Field: if electrons do not exist as noumena, they do not exist at all.
IV 410
Qualities/Locke: secondary qualities are founded in primary: the objects have the power to affect us by the length, size, mass, etc. of the corpuscles - otherwise there are bare facts.
"Things for us"/Putnam/Field: according to the limits of scientific research.
IV 412
I.e. shape, etc. are only dispositions; we will never represent the last properties, to appear so and so. - We will never represent the last properties.
FieldVsPutnam: that can never be proven.
>Representation, >Properties.