Perfective art alters the primary qualities, while purely artificial art only results in changes among the secondary qualities; essential changes result from changes in primary qualities, while accidental changes are a result of changes in secondary qualities.
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Perfective art alters the primary qualities, while purely artificial art only results in changes among the secondary qualities; essential changes result from changes in primary qualities, while accidental changes are a result of changes in secondary qualities.
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Sense qualities ( qualia ) are in a radical sense " secondary qualities "; not representations of the world, but instead " presentations ", or the way in which we understand the world.
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The crux of Berkeley's argument is that once an object is stripped of all its secondary qualities, it becomes very problematic to assign any acceptable meaning to the idea that " there is " some object.
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Suppose that someone says that a particular mind-independent object ( meaning, an object free of all secondary qualities ) exists at some particular spatio-temporal location ( in Newtonian terms, in some particular place and at some particular time ).
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Interest in Berkeley's work increased after World War II because he tackled many of the issues of paramount interest to philosophy in the 20th century, such as the problems of perception, the difference between primary and secondary qualities, and the importance of language.
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According to some traditions, though each deity is perceived from a human perspective as having a slightly different form and somewhat different primary and secondary qualities, the most advanced practitioners in each group, as well as the scriptures of each group, believe that each deity is God.
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In the sculptures belonging to the group entitled'Staan / Liggen / Hangen / Leunen'( Standing / Lying Down / Hanging / Leaning ) ( 1985-1992 ), the primary ( structural ) and secondary qualities ( skin and colour ) of various materials are coordinated and contrasted.
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He thinks with Berkeley, that objects of sight are quite distinct from those of touch, and that the one therefore cannot give any assurance of the other; and he asks the Cartesians to consider how far God's truth and goodness are called in question by their denial of the externality of the secondary qualities.
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The way in which modern science and philosophy has drawn a distinction between the mathematically and structurally describable " primary qualities " of objects such as shape and solidity and those properties dependent on our sensory apparatus, " secondary qualities " such as taste and color, is a prime example that Nagel returns to repeatedly in his work.
