Answering the Problem of Secondary Qualities
Reid's account of secondary qualities offers an alternative to the Non-Physicality Thesis from Chapter 2. It explains how secondary qualities can be objective without featuring obviously in scientific discussions. Perception alone reveals the existence of secondary qualities but leaves science to discern their natures This chapter answers Frank Jackson's case against counting secondary qualities as objective and relates Reid's secondary qualities to Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam's work on empirically discovered identities.
1913 ◽
Vol 10
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pp. 214
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1904 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 141-160
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