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1 online resource |
| Contents |
The distinction between primary and secondary qualities in ancient Greek philosophy / Mi-Kyoung Lee -- Scholastic qualities, primary and secondary / Robert Pasnau -- Gassendi and the seventeenth-century atomists on primary and secondary qualities / Antonia LoLordo -- Descartes on "What we call color" / Lawrence Nolan -- Sensible qualities and material bodies in Descartes and Boyle / Lisa Downing -- Primary and secondary qualities in Locke's 'Essay' / Michael Ayers -- Locke's distinction between primary primary qualities and secondary primary qualities / Edwin McCann -- Primary and secondary qualities in the phenomenalist theory of Leibniz / Martha Brandt Bolton -- Qualities and simple ideas : Hume and his debt to Berkeley / Alan Nelson and David Landy -- Hume and the sensible qualities / Kenneth P. Winkler -- Reid on the real foundation of the primary-secondary quality distinction / James Van Cleve -- Kant and Helmholtz on primary and secondary qualities / Gary Hatfield -- Are colors secondary qualities? / Alex Byme and David R. Hilbert -- Colour eliminativism / Barry Maund |
| Summary |
14 original essays trace the historical development of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, a key topic in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of perception |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of -- History
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Metaphysics -- History
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Metaphysics.
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Perception (Philosophy)
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Perception (Philosophy) -- History
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Metaphysics
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epistemology.
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metaphysics.
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perception.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Metaphysics
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Perception (Philosophy)
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Ontologie
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Qualität Philosophie
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nolan, Lawrence.
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| ISBN |
9780199556151 |
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0199556156 |
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9780191618000 |
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0191618004 |
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1283352397 |
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9781283352390 |
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9780191725548 |
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0191725544 |
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