He considers how much we can really know about the objects we perceive and this analysis leads him to distinguish two types of quality present in the external world which our perception recognises in different ways. ... Primary qualities are those which are inseparable from the object of our perception in that the object would cease to be as it is if these qualities were not present in it. ... However it is clear to Locke that colour, temperature etc are merely a result of the interaction of particles (and their primary qualities) with our sense organs. ... We could only conclude that thing...

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In short, the materialist feels that the information received through sense experience gives a representative picture of the outside world (the representative theory of perception), and one can not penetrate to the true essece of an object. This makes logical sense, for the only way to perceive this real essence would be to become the object itself! ... As part of his reply he might add that because it can not be sensed it is not a piece of knowledge. ... Secondary qualities are those things that are concrete (sense oriented), such as color, smell, sound, and taste. ... As previously discussed...

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Locke defined knowledge as "the perception of the connection and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas". ... The senses as our receptors to the outside world were however split into two categories depending on their quality of perception. ... As the materialist believes, primary qualities of an object are those things that are abstract (not sense oriented). ... Secondary qualities are those things that are concrete (sense oriented), such as color, smell, sound, and taste. ... The world as we know it exists; it is just a world of mental images and perceptions. ...

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These operations both consist of blanks that you must fill in with impressions in order to make sense of them. ... Perceptions have no contradictions within them or to any other perception. ... When your perception, what you say about your perception and other people's perceptions is what make truth empirical. ... When Hume uses the term ideas, he means a perception that is there in consciousness, but is much weaker in a sense than an impression. ... Though this is a paradox, Kierkegaard makes sense of this. ...

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