Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy .. . 84 AN OUTLINE OF sensation and perception, and of the distinction in thequalities of matter, it will be seen (1.) that in percep-tion proper the object perceived is always either (a)a primary quality, or (6) the quasi-primary phasisof a secundo-primary, (2.) that the primary qualitiesare perceived as in our organism, the quasi-primaryphasis of the secundo-primary as in correlation to ourorganism. Thus a perception of the primary qualitiesdoes not, originally and in itself, reveal to us the ex-istence, and qualitative existence, of aught beyondt
Outline of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy .. . 84 AN OUTLINE OF sensation and perception, and of the distinction in thequalities of matter, it will be seen (1.) that in percep-tion proper the object perceived is always either (a)a primary quality, or (6) the quasi-primary phasisof a secundo-primary, (2.) that the primary qualitiesare perceived as in our organism, the quasi-primaryphasis of the secundo-primary as in correlation to ourorganism. Thus a perception of the primary qualitiesdoes not, originally and in itself, reveal to us the ex-istence, and qualitative existence, of aught beyondthe organism, apprehended by us as extended, fig-ured, divided, etc. The primary qualities of thingsexternal to our organism we do not perceive, ,immediately know. For these we only learn to infer,from the affections which we come to find that theydetermine in our organs ; —affections which, yieldingus a perception of organic extension, we at length dis-cover, by observation and induction, to imply a cor-responding extension in the extra-or
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