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
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“So the apparent passage of time is the quale of chronon absorption?” asked the Psychologist.
From Nature ● Jun. 16, 2020
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
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
My naburs seemed surprised & astonisht at this darin' bravery onto the part of a man at my time of life, but our family was never know'd to quale in danger's stormy hour.
From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War by Artemus Ward
Ramusio, indeed, has: "M. Nicolò trovò, che sua moglie era morta, la quale nella sua partita haveva partorito un figliuolo," and the other versions that are based on Pipino's seem all to have like statements.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
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
The theory assigns to any one brain state a shape, a crystal, in a fantastically high-dimensional qualia space.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2014
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