...... Upon the solidity of bodies also depends their mutual impulse, resistance and protrusion . . . 6. If any one asks me. What this solidity is, I send him to his senses to inform him ... The simple ideas we have are such, as experience teaches them us; but if beyond that, we endeavour,...

...touch, the immediate sensation of impenetrability, is key to the formation of the sense of solidity: "If any one asks me, What this solidity is, I send him to his senses to inform him. Let him put a flint or a football between his hands, and then endeavour to join them, and he will know."21...

...approaching one another, may be pleased to make a trial, with the Air inclosed in a Football. (2AA) If any one asks me, What this Solidity is, I send him to his Senses to inform him: Let him put a Flint, or a Foot-ball between his hands, and then endeavour to join them, and he will...

...Concerning Human Understanding. Locke concludes his chapter on solidity with the following observation: "If any one asks me, What this Solidity is, I send him to his Senses to inform him: Let him put a Flint, or a Foot-ball between his Hands; and then endeavor to join them, and he will...

...fancied that the idea of scarlet was like the sound of a trumpet. SECT. 6. What it is. — If any one ask me what this solidity is? I send him to his senses to inform him ; let him put a flint or a football between his handu and then endeavour to join them, and he will...