quale
Americannoun
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qualia
plural
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a quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
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a sense-datum or feeling having a distinctive quality.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of quale
1665–75; < Latin quāle, neuter singular of quālis of what sort
Example Sentences
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“So the apparent passage of time is the quale of chronon absorption?” asked the Psychologist.
From Nature ● Jun. 16, 2020
I hope so, and that this pilgrimage, half of love and half of letters, took place, "nel tempo nel quale la rivestita terra più che tutto l'altro anno si mostra bella."
From Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells
Its claims have been merely empirical, and its curative methods those of a blind art:— "Si vis curari, de morbo nescio quali, Accipias herbam; sed quale nescio; nec quâ Ponas; nescio quo; curabere, nescio quando."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
The Sentence is so to be ordered, that quale sit may shew that an Example of that which is spoken before is to be subjoin'd.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
Bring it out, I say, and print it, tale quale.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Thomas Carlyle
Introspection and theorizing built upon first-person inspections affords vivid and moving accounts of the things experienced, referred to as qualia.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
They are intelligent but have no qualia: the ineffable sense of “what it’s like” that seems to define conscious experience.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
Thinkers since ancient Greece, if not before, have found themselves obsessed with the true nature of the senses; even modern philosophers get tripped up discussing qualia, the irreducible stuff of consciousness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2019
The hard part is sussing out why any of that grey-matter activity should lead to the feeling of experience, what philosophers call qualia.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2018
This process might explain why open people seem to have more sensitive radars for detecting and processing all kinds of concepts, percepts, and qualia.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2017
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