Qualities and sensory perception
Résumé
This article describes the conception of sensory perception during the early
modern period. It discusses David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature where
he contrasted the ancient metaphysics of substantial forms and occult
qualities with the metaphysics of the Moderns. The article argues that Hume
was fundamentally correct and that the doctrine of secondary qualities is
indeed a distinctively modern doctrine that captures something of the very
essence of the new philosophical age.
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