 | Mario BUNGE - 1977 - 404 pages
...been kept by modern science - a fact suppressed by the positivist philosophy of science. Thus Newton: "Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...or that sort of Rays more copiously than the rest" (Newton, 1782, Vol. IV). Other physical properties can be described with paraphrases of the latter... | |
 | Rolf Gruner - 1977 - 252 pages
...String, or other sounding Body,1 Newton wrote in his Opticks, 'is nothing but a trembling motion ... so Colours in the object are nothing but a Disposition...or that sort of Rays more copiously than the rest.' What is the purpose of these 'nothing buts' if it is not to indicate the belief, first, that people... | |
 | A. I. Sabra - 1981 - 372 pages
...Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the Form of Sound; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a...this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colours.' See also ibid., Bk. I,... | |
 | Michael Baxandall - 1985 - 200 pages
...exist in the light that brings us visual knowledge of them and is the immediate object of vision: . . . Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...Rays more copiously than the rest, in the Rays they arc nothing but [a] Disposition to propagate this or that Motion in the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium... | |
 | Paul Feyerabend - 1985 - 272 pages
...be a heterogenous aggregate, such as light is supposed to be . . .' (Cohen, 57). 'Colours of objects are nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of ray more copiously than the rest; in the rays they are nothing but their dispositions to propagate... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...colour in his Opticks (1704). 'Rays of light', said Newton, 'to speak properly are not coloured . . . Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colours' (Newton, Opticks, p. 125).... | |
 | William Irwin Thompson - 1991 - 276 pages
...from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a Sense of that Motion under the Form of Sound; so Colors in the Object are nothing but a Disposition to reflect...this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colors. 4 In this paragraph, Newton... | |
 | Joachim Gessinger - 1994 - 824 pages
...Motion propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a sense of that Motion under the form of sound; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a...this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are sensations of those Motions under the forms of Colours. (Opticks, 1, 90 f.) " Dies... | |
 | Beate Allert - 1996 - 292 pages
...propagated from the Object, and in the Sensorium 'tis a sense of that Motion under the form of sounds; so Colours in the Object are nothing but a disposition...this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are sensations of those Motions under the forms of Colours. (l:90ff.)'° This could... | |
 | Laurence Goldstein - 1999 - 260 pages
...would know what the perceptual experiences of a normal observer are like. Newton advanced the view that 'colours in the object are nothing but a disposition...or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest' (Newton, 1952, p. 125). However, to say that colours are dispositions (John Locke and many subsequent... | |
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For the rays, to speak properly, are not coloured. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For as sound in a bell or musical string, or other sounding body, is nothing but a trembling... 
