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Full Idea
In experience we learn propositions, since someone can reason using the sentence 'Red looks like this' (e.g. 'If red looks like this, then either it looks like this to dogs or it doesn't').
Gist of Idea
Experience teaches us propositions, because we can reason about our phenomenal experience
Source
Tim Crane (Elements of Mind [2001], 3.28)
Book Ref
Crane,Tim: 'Elements of Mind' [OUP 2001], p.96
A Reaction
The fact that we can create propositions about experiences doesn't prove that experience is inherently propositional.
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| 7378 | No one bothers to imagine what it would really be like to have ALL the physical information [Dennett on Jackson] |
| 7377 | Mary learns when she sees colour, so her complete physical information had missed something [Jackson] |
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| 7866 | Mary acquires new concepts; she previously thought about the same property using material concepts [Papineau] |
| 4094 | Experience teaches us propositions, because we can reason about our phenomenal experience [Crane] |
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