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Meaning of qualophile | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A cognitive scientist who endorses qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology.

Examples

“1994. Daniel Dennett, Get Real, in Philosophical Topics, vol. 22, no. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1994, pp. 505-568 https://web.archive.org/web/20070715205004/http://cogprints.org/280/00/getreal.htm "figment, for instance. It is an attractive feature to qualophiles until I find a suitably abusive way of characterizing it, and I am always gratified when some brave qualophile admits that, yes, something along the lines of figment as just what she was hankering for. "”
“"So what is the explanatory problem that bothers the qualophile (to use Dennett's term)? Right now I'm looking at the red diskette case beside my computer. My perceptual state possesses a certain reddish qualitative character. What explains that feature of my perceptual state? " http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?locating-consciousness.3”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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