quale
Definitions
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- noun A property considered separately from a thing having that property.
Examples
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But regardless of whether the experiential quale of "green-ness" is identical in each of us, we DO agree on what's "green" and can even objectively measure the specific range of wavelengths that comprise shades, hues and tints of "green."
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SOCRATES: Consider a further point: did we not understand them to explain the generation of heat, whiteness, or anything else, in some such manner as the following: — were they not saying that each of them is moving between the agent and the patient, together with a perception, and that the patient ceases to be a perceiving power and becomes a percipient, and the agent a quale instead of a quality?
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Philosophers often use the term ‘qualia’ (singular ‘quale’) to refer to the introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our mental lives.
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The quale, the greenness of the blob, is (like the blob itself) a nonactual intentional object.
Note
The word 'quale' comes from Latin 'quāle', neuter of 'quālis' ('of what kind').
