Locke

Locke concerns himself with ideas about colors and smells. He states that "Whatever reality we by mistake attribute to them, are in truth nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us, and depend on those primary qualities, viz., bulk, figure, texture, and motions of parts"

In class there was an example given about paint swatches and the shades of colors. It is true that in our mind that if we saw lets say color 19 and color 21, that we would pretty much imagine what would be in between. Its also interesting that Locke almost backs away from this because he really wasn't able to give any explanation except the fact that we shouldn't worry about this because its insignificant. I find that amusing due to the fact that as a philosopher, he should want to get to the bottom of this question. interesting......