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under consideration are perfectly determined; which for the most part they are not, where they are Casino Card Game marked only by names and words. 11. Modes of qualities not demonstrable like modes of quantity. But in other simple ideas, whose modes and differences are made and counted by degrees, and not quantity, Casino Card Game we have not so nice and accurate a distinction of their differences as to perceive, or find ways to measure, their just equality, or the least differences. For those other simple ideas, being appearances of sensations produced in us, by the size, figure, number, and motion of minute corpuscles singly insensible; their different degrees also depend upon the variation of some or of all those causes: which, since it cannot be observed by us, in particles of matter whereof each is too subtile to Casino Card Game be perceived, it is impossible for us to have any exact measures of the different degrees of these simple ideas. 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Whether then they be globules or no; or whether they have a verticity about their own centres that produces the idea of whiteness in us; this is certain, that the more particles of light are reflected from a body, fitted to give them that peculiar motion which produces the sensation of whiteness in us; and possibly too, the quicker that peculiar motion is,- the whiter does the body appear from which the greatest number are reflected, as is evident Casino Card Game in the same piece of paper put in the sunbeams, in the shade, and in a dark hole; in each Casino Card Game gambling advice online of which it will produce in us the idea of whiteness in far different degrees. 13. The secondary qualities of Casino Card Game things not discovered by demonstration. 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