Primary and Secondary Qualities
Locke placed the qualities of objects into two categories: primary and secondary. Secondary qualities are things like colour, taste, and the ability to induce pain. They are only the ability of an object to engender a certain perception in us; the perception does not resemble the object. Primary qualities are things like shape, motion, and number. The perceptions within us that these objects engender are actual representations of the objects 'out there in the real world'.
Do you think this is a real distinction?