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If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there
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If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a noise? Present and Critique a Lockean reply to this question Locke would attempt to answer this question with his dualist account of perception and his theory of primary and secondary qualities. He believes that all the sense data that we perceive comes from one of these two groups. He claims that primary qualities actually represent the material things as we perceive them, these qualities are solidity, extension, figure, motion and number. However, Locke thinks that secondary qualities, (such as texture, colour, sound and taste), have no relation to the objects from which they come. So it can be said that if sensation was to be taken away then all that would be left of any material thing would be its primary qualities. Therefore, secondary qualities are merely 'powers to produce sensations in us'...
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