Cambridge changes of color
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (2):142-164 (2000)
| Abstract | Locke’s porphyry argument at 2.8.19 of the Essay has not been properly appreciated. On my reconstruction, Locke argues from the premise that porphyry undergoes a mere Cambridge change of color in different lighting conditions to the conclusion that porphyry’s colors do not belong to it as it is in itself. I argue that his argument is not quite sound, but it would be if Locke chose a different stone, alexandrite. Examining his argument teaches us something about the relation between explanatory qualities and real alterations and something about the ways that colors inhere in bodies | |||||||||
| Keywords | Body Color Epistemology Light Locke | |||||||||
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