... Locke saw as a tertiary qualities, such as the power of sunlight to melt ice. To Locke, these powers serve to add weight to his claim that secondary qualities are not present in the objects that they come from, for example, grass affects our mind by causing an idea of 'greeness' in the same way that sunlight can affect ice by causing it to become water. Locke believes that an objects qualities cause ideas which we falsely associate to that object, whereas in reality our ideas of objects are merely ideas about the collection of the objects qualities. Locke's work on this subject was similar to Boyle's as both wanted to at least question the commonly held assumption that all the sensible qualities of material things had a separate reality from that which we sense. In fact, much of the grounding for Locke's views comes from Robert Boyle's studies on the ...

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