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Ideas for Eubulides, Melvin Fitting and John Locke

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / a. Qualities in perception
12478 A 'quality' is a power to produce an idea in our minds [Locke]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary
12481 Hands can report conflicting temperatures, but not conflicting shapes [Locke]
12546 We can't know how primary and secondary qualities connect together [Locke]
15989 Colours, smells and tastes are ideas; the secondary qualities have no colour, smell or taste [Locke, by Alexander,P]
15971 Secondary qualities are powers of complex primary qualities to produce sensations in us [Locke]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / c. Primary qualities
6725 Locke believes matter is an inert, senseless substance, with extension, figure and motion [Locke, by Berkeley]
15982 Qualities are named as primary if they are needed for scientific explanation [Locke, by Alexander,P]
12479 Primary qualities produce simple ideas, such as solidity, extension, motion and number [Locke]
12480 Ideas of primary qualities resemble their objects, but those of secondary qualities don't [Locke]
7049 In Locke, the primary qualities are also powers [Locke, by Heil]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
15973 In my view Locke's 'textures' are groups of corpuscles which are powers (rather than 'having' powers) [Locke, by Alexander,P]
7050 I suspect that Locke did not actually believe colours are 'in the mind' [Locke, by Heil]
15979 Secondary qualities are simply the bare powers of an object [Locke]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
12482 Molyneux's Question: could a blind man distinguish cube from sphere, if he regained his sight? [Locke]