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quality
In philosophy, a property that applies to things taken singly, in contrast to a relation, which applies to things taken in pairs, triples, etc. The distinction drawn by Galileo and J. Locke between primary and secondary qualities is motivated by the fact that modern science seems to reveal that unaided sensory perception gives false or incomplete information about the intrinsic qualities of physical objects. Mathematical formulations of physical phenomena seem to indicate that most sensory information may contribute nothing to knowledge of objects. In this view, primary qualities, such as shape, quantity, and motion, are genuine properties of things that are describable by mathematics, whereas secondary qualities, such as odor, taste, sound, color, or warmth, exist only in human consciousness and do not belong to the objects.

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