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Ideas, Qualities and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the External World.

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1987

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Part I: 1. Boyle on empirical investigation 2. Boyle and the peripatetics 3. Boyle's corpuscular philosophy Part II: 4. Ideas 5. Qualities 6. Which qualities are primary? 7. Powers 8. What are secondary qualities? 9. Observability 10. Patterns and resemblance 11. Substance-in-general 12. Language and meaning 13. Essences, species and kinds 14. Knowledge.