Lexicon of Arguments

 

Euchner I 48
Quality/Locke: force of an object to produce in us perceptions or ideas.
Primary qualities: inseparable from object: E.g. strength, extension, figure, movement/rest, number.
Secondary: cause effects in the outside world, that are projected back into the causing objects. - (in fact forces, no properties).
a) colors, smells, etc.
b) softening of wax by heat (seen as a force).
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Putnam I 175
Properties/qualities/Locke:
Primary: shape, position, size (objectively)
Secondary: colors, sounds, taste, smell (subjectively).
Locke: discards "substantial forms" (an expression used in the middle ages)
>"essential characteristics": Expressions for classification of "water" do not include in any sense features that are "real substances" of these things.
>Substance/Locke.

Berkeley: discards both primary and secondary properties.
>Berkeley.

Kant: All properties are secondary (for us); the question of the "essential features" of the thing in itself is meaningless (Put I 175)> E.g. >Statue/clay,
>Things in themselves, >Qualia, >Perception/Locke, >Experience/Locke, >Dimension.
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Russell II 22
Qualities/Locke/Russell: a) primarily: shape, position, size ("objective") - b) Secondary: colors, sounds, smells, tastes ("subjective").
>Objectivity, >Subjctivity.