Sentence examples for secondary quality from inspiring English sources

A secondary quality is one that (in some manner) crucially depends on our subjective awareness.

Sensibility theory begins with an analogy with secondary quality concepts, such as colour concepts.

And this, of course, is essentially the "secondary quality" account of color that many find in Locke.

The second is that the secondary quality view is not thought of as capturing the common-sense, or 'vulgar', way of thinking of color.

He answered as if Collins was talking about the smell of the rose and claims that this secondary quality properly belongs in his second class of properties.

The first proposal, on which cinematic motion is a secondary quality, threatens to destroy the distinction between the apparent and the illusory.

Locke distinguished between primary and secondary qualities, as Galileo did.

Secondary qualities, such as "light and colors, sounds, smells, tastes," and so on, are subjective.

"All those secondary qualities are nice," Mr. Wilson said, "but they're deep down the list, in my book".

One of them is his illuminating distinction between the "primary" and "secondary" qualities of physical objects.

Don't look to the new Locke for guidance on the continuity of the self or epistemological distinctions between primary and secondary qualities.