Comparing Locke's Primary And Secondary Principles

Questions such as whether a tree would make a sound of it fell in the forest and one one was close by to hear the impact and about the existence of a tree in a forest where it is not being visualized by anyone can be tenuously analyzed philosophers such as John Locke, and George Berkeley. John Locke uses his understanding of primary and secondary qualities to justify his various hypotheses concerning such topics. The primary qualities are those qualities that are already embedded into the object itself, for example, shape and sizes, for when an object is split or divided the part of the object retains qualities that allow it to mobilize continue dividing into more. The secondary qualities are those that do not exist within the object but instead are perceptions created by the individual's sensations through the primary qualities. He also argued that the secondary qualities are what allow us to perceive the color, sensation of even the creation of new things such as the warmth produced by fire burning.

This is inferred through his theory that most things exists through sensory waves and mind, such as sounds or waves are not completely existent, but rather created through the brain. For the second question of whether the existence of a tree in a forest becomes jeopardized when it is not being visualized by anyone, it is evident that Locke response would be like. By being able to visualize the tree in the forest through our own eyes it becomes most certain that indeed the tree does exist, and even if we were to stop perceiving it, our knowledge would assert to us that the tree continues to exists. If however, we do not visualize the tree at all it is still possible me for the tree to indeed