Sentences with phrase «throughout accidental changes»
Along with this rigorous distinction of primary from secondary qualities there has often gone a belief that only the primary qualities could be called really real (their persistence throughout accidental changes being the criterion of their reality), and that secondary qualities are not part of the real world.
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The stuff undergoes change in respect to accidental qualities and relations; but it is numerically self - identical in its character of one actual entity throughout its accidental adventures.
The stuff undergoes change in respect to accidental qualities and relations; but it is numerically self - identical in its character of one actual entity throughout its accidental adventures» (PR 78/120).
That a Society has both essential and accidental qualities thus enables it to be a type of entity which endures throughout change as a «complete existence» with an ongoing historical development of its own: it remains what it is essentially and yet changes accidentally in «reaction to changing circumstances.»
They exist independently of my experience; they endure throughout the process of accidental changes, and, therefore, they seem to be more real, more concrete than the secondary qualities.