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I fail to understand why Locke does not consider texture or shape to be a secondary quality of objects. Touch is a sensation, hence texture. Shape can be described as much as color can. Locke describes color as the way an object deflects the light that enters our eyes and forms perceptions, but shape can be defined as a boundary problem in which the shape "ends" where light deflection of said object ceases to exist.

Innate ideas vs intuition, the role of knowledge absorption in childhood that leads to the acritical consolidation of ideas formed from collective knowledge, which in adulthood are called intuition.

Tycho Brahe, Giordano Bruno, Kepler, Galileo, Torricelli, William Harvey, Descartes, Gassendi, Pascal, Boyle, Huygens, Espinosa, Hooke, Newton, Leibniz and Locke. What a time to be alive.

The reform of Martin Luther was really a fascinating read.it seems that a libertarian view was bound to emerge in the age of British rationalism and church absolutism.