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PRONUNCIATION OF SECONDARY QUALITIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SECONDARY QUALITIES

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Secondary qualities is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SECONDARY QUALITIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Primary/secondary quality distinction

The primary/secondary quality distinction is a conceptual distinction in epistemology and metaphysics, concerning the nature of reality. It is most explicitly articulated by John Locke in his Essay concerning Human Understanding, but earlier thinkers such as Galileo and Descartes made similar distinctions. Primary qualities are thought to be properties of objects that are independent of any observer, such as solidity, extension, motion, number and figure. These characteristics convey facts. They exist in the thing itself, can be determined with certainty, and do not rely on subjective judgments. For example, if a ball is round, no one can reasonably argue that it is a triangle. Secondary qualities are thought to be properties that produce sensations in observers, such as color, taste, smell, and sound. They can be described as the effect things have on certain people. Knowledge that comes from secondary qualities does not provide objective facts about things. Primary qualities are measurable aspects of physical reality. Secondary qualities are subjective.

Definition of secondary qualities in the English dictionary

The definition of secondary qualities in the dictionary is those properties of objects that are explained in terms of the primary properties of their parts, such as heat in terms of the motion of molecules.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SECONDARY QUALITIES

secondary colour
secondary dentition
secondary education
secondary emission
secondary era
secondary glazing
secondary growth
secondary infection
secondary modern
secondary modern school
secondary picket
secondary picketing
secondary processes
secondary product
secondary road
secondary school
secondary school teacher
secondary sexual characteristic
secondary stress
secondary tumour

WORDS THAT END LIKE SECONDARY QUALITIES

abilities
activities
amenities
authorities
capabilities
celebrities
cities
communities
disabilities
entities
facilities
humanities
minorities
opportunities
parties
possibilities
qualities
quantities
responsibilities
universities
utilities

Synonyms and antonyms of secondary qualities in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «secondary qualities» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SECONDARY QUALITIES

Find out the translation of secondary qualities to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of secondary qualities from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «secondary qualities» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

中学素质
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cualidades secundarias
570 millions of speakers

English

secondary qualities
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

माध्यमिक गुण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الصفات الثانوية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вторичные качества
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

qualidades secundárias
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দ্বিতীয় গুণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

qualités secondaires
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kualiti sekunder
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sekundären Qualitäten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

二次資質
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

보조 자질
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sifat-sifat sekunder
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phẩm chất thứ cấp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரண்டாம் நிலை குணங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुय्यम गुण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ikincil nitelikler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

qualità secondarie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drugorzędowe cechy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вторинні якості
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

calități secundare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δευτερεύουσες ιδιότητες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sekondêre kwaliteite
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sekundära egenskaper
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sekundære kvaliteter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of secondary qualities

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SECONDARY QUALITIES»

The term «secondary qualities» is used very little and occupies the 154.705 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SECONDARY QUALITIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about secondary qualities

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SECONDARY QUALITIES»

Discover the use of secondary qualities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to secondary qualities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Primary and Secondary Qualities: The Historical and Ongoing ...
The volume starts with the ancient Greeks, discusses virtually all major figures of the early modern era, and reflects on the place of the topic in philosophy today.
Lawrence Nolan, 2011
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The Subjective View: Secondary Qualities and Indexical Thoughts
This book investigates subjective and objective representations of the world. Analogies between secondary qualities and indexical thoughts are developed, and subjective representations are argued to be ineliminable.
Colin McGinn, 1983
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Ideas, Qualities, and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the ...
Professor Alexander concentrates on the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and aims to restore that to its proper historical context.
Peter Alexander, 1985
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Perception: And Our Knowledge of the External World
5.1 PRIMARY QUALITIES AND SECONDARY QUALITIES If it is impossible to provide a Phenomenalistic analysis of statements about physical objects, it follows that the Idealist cannot accommodate the views of common sense about what we ...
Don Locke, 2004
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Philosophy and Philosophers: An Introduction to Western ...
Primary qualities are size, extension, shape, movement, solidity. (b) Secondary qualities: our ideas of secondary qualities do not resemble those qualities as they are in bodies. Secondary qualities are hot, cold, sound, colour, taste, odour, etc.
John Shand, 1993
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Berkeley and the ...
Introduces and assesses Berkeley's life and the background to the Principles, the ideas and text in the Principles, Berkeley's continuing importance to philosophy. Essential reading for students coming to Berkeley for the first time.
Robert Fogelin, 2003
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Ignorance and Imagination : The Epistemic Origin of the ...
Truths about Secondary Qualities The second class of truths concerns the secondary qualities of physical objects—secondary quality truths, as I will call them. Traditionally, secondary qualities of physical objects are their color, heat, smell, and ...
Research School of Social Sciences The Australian National University Daniel Stoljar Senior Fellow, 2006
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The God Question: An Invitation to a Life of Meaning
primary and secondary qualities. Primary qualities are those thought to characterize matter: mass, size, shape, charge, location, being in motion or rest, solidity, and wave characteristics (frequency, amplitude, and length). Secondary qualities ...
J. P. Moreland, 2009
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Knowledge as Sexual Metaphor
There is in human knowledge no discoverable union, no connection, no co- existence, no cohabitation, if one will, of the primary qualities with the secondary qualities or the secondary qualities with the primary ones. Thus, if one takes the ...
George Joseph Seidel, 2000
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The Metaphysics of Self and World: Toward a Humanistic ...
It is time to reconsider the reasons for the subjectivist theory of secondary qualities, although nothing seems more firmly established in the modern mind. The first reason listed above was the variability of experienced secondary qualities with ...
Elie Maynard Adams, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SECONDARY QUALITIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term secondary qualities is used in the context of the following news items.
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Of Wood and Region
It also forgoes opportunities to add or enhance qualities within the ale using oxygenation and secondary qualities in wood casks such as the sherry, port and ... «The London Economic, Jul 15»
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Oak continues its momentum in France
In some regions (Franche-Comté, Burgundy, near Belgium), the increase in prices appears higher on small diameters and on secondary qualities. ''Without any ... «IHB, Jun 15»
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Thinking Straight About Curved Space
They are void of secondary qualities – warmth, brightness, colour, texture – never mind meaning, value, and use – even though all these qualities are ... «Philosophy Now, May 15»
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Denmark must not succumb to polarisation in the wake of …
I want to see individuals first and then gender, religion, political or sexual orientation as secondary qualities – not as profiling parameters. It's by fulfilling the ... «The Conversation UK, Feb 15»
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Mathematics & Reality
So the mathematized universe of physics lacks what are now (after John Locke) usually called by the slightly derogatory term 'secondary qualities'. These resist ... «Philosophy Now, May 14»
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'Skylanders' Weekend Battles Create Valuable Family Traditions
Unlike graphics or sound or game-play itself these secondary qualities are hard to measure and rarely feature in reviews. Working to help families get the most ... «Forbes, Dec 13»
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Appel on Wine: Wines from underrated grape wide-ranging, easy …
After the bottle has sat open for an hour or so, secondary qualities of farms and loam come on. It speaks volumes about the Golden Age of wine access we ... «Press Herald, Jan 13»
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iPhone recharging on the run: Case vs. case
... between these two recharging cases comes down not to their near-equal charging capabilities but to their secondary qualities. If you want maximum protection ... «CNET, Aug 11»
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Quantum Theory: If a tree falls in the forest…
Philosophers have long argued that sound, colour, taste, smell and touch are all secondary qualities which exist only in our minds. We have no basis for our ... «OUPblog, Feb 11»
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The Simulated Self
They were called the secondary qualities of objects. The primary qualities of physical objects – such as, among others, weight, size, and perhaps today we could ... «Philosophy Now, Nov 10»

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