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>From anna grier:

By impulse which is the only way we can concieve bodies to operate.

>rm says: So, what's 'impulse'? Use your own words.

>From anna grier:

It's like we have a sudden desire to do something, or we act on something in haste without thinking first.

>rm says: I think Locke has a different sense of the word in mind, here.

>From eg:

We get ideas of secondary properties by experiences of objects. Meaning, even though we know a violet to be a flower with a sweet scent and a blue color. We always knew that from past experience that we remember or just knew it to be that (innate).

>rm says: This is pretty good; it's about experience. But Locke rejects any innate ideas. This question is more about the way in which we acquire ideas of experience.

>From avrohom:

we get the ideas of the secondary qualities through our experiences and interpretation of the primary qualities.

>rm says: No, but if you reverse that, you might have something!

>From KAI YU and WAI YAN:

we get secondary qualities by experiences. We get different sensory experiences every time we perceive the same object.

>rm says: Yes, but how? Do we experience the secondary properties of an object?

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