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Class Responses and Instructor Comments

>From anna grier:

Simple ideas come from our senses being affected by something that excites them,causing a perception in the mind to occur.

>rm says: Yes. What might excite the senses?

>From Akiva D.:

Color, taste, anything that the five senses can pick up on. The noministic qualities?

>rm says: Yes, these are the sensory properties. I was wondering how the senses were stimulated, above. (By physical objects, say?) As for nominalism, I wouldn't say that any properties are nominalistic, but rather that Locke is a nominalist about these properties, because he doesn't think they represent real qualities of physical objects.

>From DM:

Simple ideas come from the senses.

>rm says: And how are the senses stimulated?

>From Maria T:

Simple Ideas come from the senses and the senses are stimulated through sight, touch, taste or also by hearing the words that are used to represent the object that excite the idea in our minds.

>rm says: Good, though to be picky I wouldn't say that the senses are stimulated through sight etc., since those are the senses.

>From KAI YU and WAI YAN: Simple ideas come from matter of themselves, but ideas are reflections of properties that the matter holds which we perceive with our senses.

rm says: This is true, for Locke, but this notion of 'reflections of properties' demands explanation.

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