Primary qualities, for Locke, are ideas about things (e.g., being solid, taking up space, being in motion or at rest) which resemble the way those things really are.

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John Locke distinguished between primary and secondary qualities, where primary qualities (such as solidity, extension, motion, and number) are characteristics that exist within the object itself and resemble the ideas we have of them, meaning they reflect the object's actual state.

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