Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I (a) 8
Experience/Lewis: the defining feature is its >causal role. - These then belong to certain physical states - identity: e.g. the combination of the positions within a lock is identical when the lock is open: they are introspectively perceptible processes or activities, not the alleged intentional objects of which experiences are knowledge.
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V 10
E.g. pain is not the same as the property of feeling pain! "Pain" is a contingent name, that means it and has different denotations in different possible worlds. (Not rigid). >Pain/Lewis.
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I (a) 13
LewisVsBehaviorism: experiences are something real.
I (a) 18
They have to be causes and effects - nothing non-physical can be a cause.

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