primary qualities
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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This bus has primary qualities of solidity and space occupancy that exist independently of our perceptual machinery and that can do us injury.
From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2019
Now the other primary qualities of matter are unaffected by circumstances.
From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas
Even our knowledge of the persistence of force and of the primary qualities of matter is but of relative significance.
From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John
Return We have not noticed his iterativeness, his reiterativeness, because it flowed naturally from his primary qualities.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
The primary qualities, being the general laws or forms of organic Energy-transmutation, are in a higher sense ideal, for they are the necessary conditions under which both sense-presentation and ideative representation proceed.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander
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