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  • Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural History

    Discover a cross-journal special feature from Library & Information History and Archives of Natural History.

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Primary qualities and elements from BL Royal 12 F X, f. 2

Primary and Secondary Qualities: More Trouble than You’d Think!

Size and shape versus sound and colour: discover how primary and secondary qualities have perplexed philosophers for thousands of years, and how Thomas Reid offers us a way forward.

  • Naomi Farmer
  • November 6, 2018

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