Locke also distinguishes between the truly existing " primary qualities " of bodies, like shape, motion and the arrangement of minute particles, and the " secondary qualities " that are " powers to produce various sensations in us " such as " red " and " sweet . " These " secondary qualities ", Locke claims, are dependent on the " primary qualities ".
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Locke also distinguishes between the truly existing " primary qualities " of bodies, like shape, motion and the arrangement of minute particles, and the " secondary qualities " that are " powers to produce various sensations in us " such as " red " and " sweet . " These " secondary qualities ", Locke claims, are dependent on the " primary qualities ".
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It talks about, in what can be considered like the first part, the subjects treated by Aristotle in the " Eight books of physics ", as they are the essence of the physical or natural being, the movement and the infinite, the extension, the continuous, the space, the time, the first engine, etc . The second part treats of the subjects of the generation and the corruption of the living beings, of the mixed and composed being, of the primary qualities and of the elements and their properties.
