tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post5791743352363264336..comments2024-03-27T20:37:09.185-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: ColorsAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-85979364856437718752009-05-08T10:14:00.000-05:002009-05-08T10:14:00.000-05:00If to have a quale of green is just to be non-infe...If to have a quale of green is just to be non-inferentially visually appeared to greenly, then he does,...<br /><br />This seems like a good argument that there is more to qualia than non-inference and connection to a particular sense. I think that's right. But I wonder whether one might object that your son's ability to be non-inferentially appeared to greenly had to have been acquired at some point. Once upon a time, it was an inference. Maybe qualia depend on some kind of original non-inference.<br /><br />I'm not sure that I follow the parenthetical question. It looks like another way to suggest that there's more to a quale than non-inference. But in the case of your son you related that non-inference to a particular sense. It doesn't look like you're doing that with this question. The answer might just be "No, you'd be having the quale of hearing green."<br /><br />It seems like the best argument would involve a two-fold unlearned non-inference relating to the same sense organ. I can't think of any examples. Perhaps we could imagine that your son was born with the ability to get green non-inferentially by the leaf's shape.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13233517957041524368noreply@blogger.com