 | Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 sider
...such a change in the bulk, figure, texture and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to »i.ike wax white, and fire to make; lead fluid. These Are usually called powers. л) 1. ej H.: by... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 sider
...is in any body to make a sensible change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire...These are usually called powers. The first of these may be properly called primary qualities, the other two are only powers which result from the different... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 sider
...is in any body to make a sensible change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire...These are usually called powers. The first of these may be properly called primary qualities, the other two are only powers which result from the different... | |
 | 1840 - 456 sider
...make such a change in the bulk etc. of another body, äs to make it operate on our senses, diflerently from what it did before, Thus the sun has a power...make lead fluid. These are usually called powers. Ibid. §.23. If rightly considered, these qualities of light and wärmt h, which are perceptions in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 sider
...such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the...original or primary qualities, because they are in tJie things themselves, whether they are perceived or no : and upon their different modifications it... | |
 | John Locke - 1838 - 590 sider
...texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses, differently from what it diti before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white;...the things themselves, whether they are perceived or not ; and upon their different modifications it is that the secondary qualities depend. The other two... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1840 - 460 sider
...primary qualities to make such a change in the bulk etc. of another body, as to make it operate on our senses, differently from what it did before. Thus...make lead fluid. These are usually called powers. Ibid. §. 23. If rightly considered, these qualities of light and warmth, which are perceptions in... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 794 sider
...such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the...fluid. These are usually called Powers. The first are resemblances; the second thought resemblances, but are not; the third neither are, nor are thought... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 560 sider
...such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the...the things themselves, whether they are perceived or not; and upon their different modifications it is that the secondary qualities depend. The other two... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 sider
...sucha change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses, differently from what it did before. Thus...white, and fire to make lead fluid. These are usually calleo powers. The first of these, as has been said, I think may be properly called real, original,... | |
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The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its primary qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses differently from what it did before.... 
