Lexicon of Arguments

 

VI 153
Qualia/Wittgenstein/Sellars/Rorty: the awareness of qualia is nothing more than to learn how to formulate judgments about qualia - that presupposes a relationship between qualia and non-qualia.
>Judgments, >Experience, >Perception, >Sensory impression.
VI 405f
Robert Adams: only the existence of God could explain the correlation between brain and qualia.
Qualia/Robert Adams: cannot be analyzed, therefore not traceable to elementary particles. Reductionism "can be refuted by the fact that one sees red or tastes onions".
RortyVsAdams: this refutation is a typical "citing of the unspeakable". A reference to a kind of knowledge that cannot be questioned by any new description. For this is not knowledge by description, but knowledge by direct acquaintance. ((s) It cannot be transferred.)
>Knowledge by acquaintance, >Redescription/Rorty.
RortyVsAdams: a lot must be provided in the language before a plausible reference to the taste of onions is possible at all. See also Sellars:
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Rorty I 206
Language/Sellars/Rorty: the peculiarity of language is not that it "changes the quality of our experience" or "opens up new perspectives for consciousness".
Rather, its acquisition gives us access to a community whose members justify their assertions to each other.
>Wilfrid Sellars, >Robert Adams.