John Locke Secondary Qualities
According to Locke, primary qualities are measurable by the mind, thus they are independent of perception. The primary qualities of an object are the features it really has, including its solidity, size, extension, figure, motion, number, etc. In contrast, secondary qualities are objects that are not measurable of the mind, and thus they are perception dependent. Secondary qualities include the ideas it produces for color, smell, sound, taste, etc. Locke claims that our sensations of primary qualities resemble the properties of the object we perceive. However, our sensations of secondary qualities don’t resemble the object at