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Qualities, philosophy: quality is an expression of the nature of objects or the form of properties. Today, it is no longer understood as a category but rather as the sum of the distinguishing features of an object. Properties of the objects like their size, mass, etc. count as objective or primary qualities, subjective (secondary) qualities are properties which are settled in the subject, e.g. color. See also quantities, qualia, subjectivity, objectivity, properties, features.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Hartry Field on Qualities - Dictionary of Arguments

IV 409
Primary qualities/Locke: E.g. length, size, shape - secondary: e.g. color.
Secondary quality/Locke: do not resemble our ideas directly.
Putnam thesis: Kant has that what Locke said about secondary qualities extended to primary qualities.
Field: many say that today because the imaging theory is dead.
FieldVsPicture theory.
>Picture theory
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Locke: color is a force to affect us.
Putnam: this also applies to size, charge, mass,...etc.
Putnam: Putnam even extends this to properties of sensations. - But this force is not a noumenon, but the world itself (= Vs correspondence theory - ((s): Forces instead of objects).
>Noumenon, >Correspondence, >Correspondence theory.
Problem/Field: if electrons do not exist as noumena, they do not exist at all.
IV 410
Qualities/Locke: secondary qualities are founded in primary: the objects have the power to affect us by the length, size, mass, etc. of the corpuscles - otherwise there are bare facts.
"Things for us"/Putnam/Field: according to the limits of scientific research.
IV 412
I.e. shape, etc. are only dispositions; we will never represent the last properties, to appear so and so. - We will never represent the last properties.
FieldVsPutnam: that can never be proven.
>Representation, >Properties.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Field I
H. Field
Realism, Mathematics and Modality Oxford New York 1989

Field II
H. Field
Truth and the Absence of Fact Oxford New York 2001

Field III
H. Field
Science without numbers Princeton New Jersey 1980

Field IV
Hartry Field
"Realism and Relativism", The Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1982), pp. 553-67
In
Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994


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