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secondary qualities

pl n

(Philosophy) (in empiricist philosophy) those properties of objects that are explained in terms of the primary properties of their parts, such as heat in terms of the motion of molecules

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No references found			The secondary qualities of mind, he said, are illusions belying a deeper truth, the mathematical determinism of matter. A tribute to Gaudi: he was an original thinker, an iconoclast who did ... by Gough, John / New Internationalist illustrates the role-set's primary choices (the qualities they selected as the most significant and numbered them as 1), and secondary qualities (those which the respondents put in positions 2-5). The role of the foreign language teacher in the classroom -- the ... by Keblowska, Magdalena / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies Candidates should be assessed on their written responses, experience, technical abilities, and other dimensions of importance that will confirm the secondary qualities rounding out the package of the honest leader. In pursuit of honest leadership by Plummer, Larry C. / The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin			Secondary coverts Secondary crystal Secondary current secondary dentition secondary diagonal secondary dysmenorrhea secondary education secondary electron secondary emission Secondary evidence Secondary fever secondary growth Secondary hemorrhage secondary hypertension secondary imagery dissemination secondary imagery dissemination system secondary loads secondary meristem secondary modern school secondary offering secondary picket secondary picketing Secondary planet secondary port secondary processes secondary qualities Secondary quills secondary rescue facilities secondary road Secondary rocks Secondary roots secondary school secondary sex character secondary sex characteristic secondary sexual characteristic secondary source secondary storage secondary stress secondary structure secondary succession secondary syphilis secondary targets Secondary tint secondary tissue Secondary union Secondary use secondary wall secondary water terminal secondary wave secondary wave breaker system secondary winding			Secondary pride Secondary pride Secondary pride Secondary Primary Noncutaneous Malignancy Secondary Principals' Association of New Zealand secondary process secondary process secondary process thinking secondary process thinking secondary process thinking secondary process thinking Secondary Processed Wood Products secondary processes secondary processes Secondary progressive Secondary progressive Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis secondary proximal renal tubular acidosis Secondary Public Offering Secondary Public Offering Secondary Public Offerings Secondary Pulmonary Artery Hypertension Secondary pulmonary hypertension Secondary Pulsed Field Gel secondary purpura secondary purpura secondary purpura secondary qualities Secondary Quartzite Secondary quills Secondary radar secondary radar data only secondary radiation secondary radiation secondary radiation secondary radiation Secondary rainbow Secondary rainbow Secondary rainbow Secondary Raw Material Secondary Raw Material secondary recovery Secondary Recovery Server Secondary Reference Cube secondary reference fuel secondary reflection Secondary Refrigerant secondary reinforcement secondary reinforcement secondary relationships Secondary Reparables Secondary Reports Distribution Unit Secondary Request to Send secondary rescue facilities secondary rescue facilities secondary reserves secondary reserves Secondary Restraining System

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