Meaning of what-it's-like-ness | Babel Free
Examples
“Thomas Nagel brought into contemporary debates the notion of what-it's-like-ness by claiming that in order⟳ to understand⟳ an entity as conscious, there must be something that it is like⟳ to be that thing. There is nothing that it's like⟳ to be a bat, he said, it's not possible for us to imagine⟳ what it's like⟳ to be a bat.”
“At the what-it's-like-ness end⟳ of the semantic range of the word 'experience⟳', we have⟳ something that I might also call⟳ 'consciousness' — if that helps: […]”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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