These categories correspond roughly to the primary, secondary and tertiary qualities of the mechanical philosophy (Attfield, p. 46).
However, when criticizing the Scholastic account of (b), the explanation of the qualities of bodies, Locke typically refrains from invoking the concept of 'real essence' and instead talks about the primary, secondary and tertiary qualities of bodies (see, for example II.viii.10 26).10 26
The museum has sold off about 700 antiques, which Mr. Busch called "largely of secondary and tertiary quality," and acquired a few hundred more, including an 1810s steam-bent wooden armchair in its original painted pinstripes, and a luminous agate bowl that was acclaimed when introduced at the 1867 world's fair in Paris.
All of the hypothesis' reductions of observable primary qualities, of secondary qualities, and of tertiary qualities, would inherit impulse's obscurity; thus Locke appears to be suggesting here that the corpuscular hypothesis cannot fulfill its promise of explaining and reducing those properties and powers.
His discussion of tertiary qualities is similar.
Max Scheler (1954) was the first to suggest that emotions are in effect perceptions of "tertiary qualities" that supervene in the (human) world on facts about social relations, pleasure and pain, and natural psychological facts, a suggestion recently elaborated by Tappolet (2000).
Secondary qualities in particular, such as colors and sounds, but also ideas of macrolevel primary qualities, including visual sensations of shapes and sizes, and tertiary qualities were to be reduced to the primary qualities of corpuscles, interacting with one another and/or with perceptual systems.
While tertiary education enrolment has increased dramatically – from 1% in 1981 to 25% in 2013 at tertiary level – the quality of the academic experience has been criticised.
This study highlights the substantial impact of apparently "minor" motor vehicle crash injuries in a compensable setting and suggests targets for studies of tertiary prevention to improve health-related quality-of-life outcomes.
In conclusion, the results highlight the substantial impact of apparently "minor" motor vehicle crash injuries for people involved in compensation and suggest targeted studies of tertiary prevention to improve health-related quality-of-life outcomes.
