Lexicon of Arguments

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I XXXVII
Content/Sellars: There is a difference of descriptive and propositional content of experience.
>Propositional content.
Def Descriptive content/Sellars: what is responsible for ensuring that anyone who sees something red, or something that just seems red, will respond with the same words.
Common content/Sellars: The common descriptive content of experiences could be determined, by saying that both were experiences of seeing a red object when their common propositional content were true.
>Language community.

I 20
Data: data are empirical.
Content/Sellars: consists in the theoretical entities.

((s) "Theoretical entities" here are not as in most other contexts unobservables like elementary particles. For Sellars' Psychological Nominalism objects are not perceivable as objects unless our concepts are formed.)

>Consciousness/Sellars, >Concepts/Sellars, cf. >Theoretical entities.

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