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Democritus and Secondary Qualities

  • Robert Pasnau

Abstract

Democritus is generally understood to have anticipated the seventeenthcentury distinction between primary and secondary qualities. I argue that this is not the case, and that instead for Democritus all sensible qualities are conventional.

Published Online: 2007-12-04
Published in Print: 2007-07-20

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