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primary qualities

plural noun

  1. (in empiricist philosophy) those properties of objects that are directly known by experience, such as size, shape, and number
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Throughout the scientific revolutions of the 17th Century, color was dismissed, along with other aesthetic properties like scent, as a secondary quality — that is, one lacking the explanatory role in the behavior of physical objects of so-called primary qualities, like motion or size or shape.

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Primary qualities are objective; secondary qualities are subjective, in that they depend on our ways of sensing.

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This bus has primary qualities of solidity and space occupancy that exist independently of our perceptual machinery and that can do us injury.

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Primary qualities of an object, such as solidity and occupancy of space, exist independently of a perceiver.

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His primary qualities are technique and vision.

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