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Sensation: ability to detect differences between own inner states related to stimuli. Sensations are fundamentally for perceptions and unlike them not linked to linguistic abilities. See also sensory impression, impression, perception, stimulation, stimuli, emotion, experience.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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John McDowell on Sensations - Dictionary of Arguments

I 62
Wittgenstein: (mutatis mutandis) self-attributions of personal feeling from any judgments.
>Judgment/Wittgenstein
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McDowell: that is understandable, because both positions are unsatisfactory.
Interior/exterior experience/McDowell: both are passive conceptual events.
Inner Experience: a possible component of a world view.
Cf. >Introspection.
I 64
Sensibility/McDowell: we do not apply conceptual skills to not conceptual material. Conceptual skills are effective even in the material of sensuality.
>Sensory impression, >Experience/McDowell.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

McDowell I
John McDowell
Mind and World, Cambridge/MA 1996
German Edition:
Geist und Welt Frankfurt 2001

McDowell II
John McDowell
"Truth Conditions, Bivalence and Verificationism"
In
Truth and Meaning, G. Evans/J. McDowell,


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