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Those are quantitative. "Quantitative" doesn't have to refer to an exact/known quantity. "Same/different" is qualitative.

You can't perceive how we think about something, how we value it, etc. "Perception" has a connotation of "sensing information from outside of us." How...

In order to refer to the external matter, we have to use a type term, since that's how language works. So you're again getting confused here because y...

So in other words, you're conflating how we think about things, how we evaluate and value them, etc., with what we're perceiving.

So you're an idealist? "Property" doesn't imply "universal" or "type," by the way. I hope that this isn't a matter of once again confusing our concept...

What do you think that properties are? I'm asking because apparently you think they're something separate from other things that somehow can "attach" ...

I'm a nominalist, so you're going wrong somewhere. You believe that objects wouldn't have various ways they are, various characteristics, etc.? How wo...

What you'd think we see other than properties, who knows?

As opposed to talking about the table as the table. Or from the perspective of the table, using "perspective" in the sense it's used in the visual art...

Yes. Qualia talk is typically focused on experiencing things-in-the-world, not our own mental content per se. So in other words, experiencing sights a...

It's not a complicated idea, by the way. It's just that some people deny qualia, partially because they don't want it to be the case that there's some...

A table was brought up earlier as an example. (a) "The properties of the table" are different than (b) "The properties of the table as you experience ...

It's referring to the properties of experience, or we could say "the things in experience," from the perspective of that experience.

All properties that are not quantities (that are not simply numerical). In other words, all properties are exhausted by the qualitative/quantitative d...

??? I even addressed this before. "Qualities" are properties. But qualitative properties are different than quantitative properties. In other words th...

I wasn't trying to persuade you to adopt a different view. I gave my opinion on the initial post, that led to a brief back and forth, you asked some q...

No. I don't realize that. Because they're not contradictory. What do you believe the P is that one is affirming and the other denying by the way? Sinc...

Neither. Moral utterances are not true or false. Again, I'm a noncognitivist on ethics. So the same for the second question. Because it's what's the c...

I'm not trying to say anything other than I'm saying. I simply asked you a question. There's no need to get upset over a question. So if we defined sl...

The only question I noticed that you asked that I didn't answer (I just searched for it--I found a post I overlooked) was about common moral theories....

Not that any of this matters for whether there are qualia, by the way, but one is extensional relations and the other is an electromagnetic frequency....

How do we check whether they're conscious while they're saying something?

Yes, otherwise there would be no way to make a distinction between them experientially. You'd not be able to experience the same shape with a differen...

Sure, so take sleepwalking. Evidence that sleepwalkers have mental content that isn't conscious? What would count as that?

Yes, obviously shape and color are distinct. You can have the same shape table where it's a different color or vice versa.

The shape as you experience it is a property of your experience. Whether there's a corresponding shape of the table, as a property of the table, is ki...

No. I'm not saying that. The distinction is between the shape of the table as a property of the table, and the shape of the table as you experience it...

What do you think would count as evidence that we have unconscious mental content?

I don't buy the idea that we have "subconscious" (or unconscious) mental content, such as desires.

A common view is that there's some shape to the table, as a property of the table (whether we're talking about a "totality" of the shape of the table ...

Again, this is a problem, because it suggests that you do not understand what I'm asking. I'm not asking anything about a "totality." That's completel...

It was a question. I was asking if that's what he was suggesting.

Sorry I hadn't addressed your posts yet: So first, re this: Are you suggesting a purpose that might not be consciously present in individual humans, o...

"Is not technical talk" in no way amounts to "does not make sense in terms of conscious experience"

Sure, and in a discussion, you'd answer a simple question like "Do you agree that the shape of the table, as a property of the table, is different tha...

I wrote what I meant initially. I didn't write anything about physicalism in that post. No matter what I write, you read it with weird reading compreh...

Again, I'm asking if you agree that the shape of the table, as a property of the table, is different than the shape of the table in your experience or...

What I asked about has nothing to do with the underside of the table. Disagreeing with what I said would amount to you believing that the shape of the...

In other words, a moral system in which everything is morally permissible unless we specify that it's morally prohibited?

I don't think that trying to parse it in terms of formal logic is going to be helpful at this point. First, most people would say that the shape of th...

Sure, but what do you take to be an example of a system that would tell you even whether to murder someone else without it being a case where really y...

You can't have a language without semantics, and you can't have semantics without personal interpretation. There's no way to make personal interpretat...

At the very least, this should underscore some of the problems with answering a question like this. People almost always talk about explanations witho...

"Exactly resemble" seems to be an oxymoron. It's not going to exactly BE the real thing. And resemblance is a judgment, unless you want to try to set ...

What would you say determines whether a model resolves a question then?

Resolve any question to any arbitrary person's satisfaction?

When you're doing philosophy, you can focus on various subjects, various types of phenomena, etc. For example, there's philosophy of (or about) scienc...

In practice, that's how all systems--utilitarianism, etc. work. That's one of the many things that underscores that contra any beliefs otherwise, ethi...

The first thing we need to clarify when we're answering this is just what is an explanation? Just what are the criteria for an explanation? Just what ...

The purpose is to underscore that if bats have conscious experiences--and presumably they do have some sorts of conscious experiences, then (a) those ...