quale
Americannoun
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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
Page 22, line 19. quale, altered in ink in the folio text to qualis.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
After this exordium, he commits to Brunelleschi's care his little book on painting, quale a tuo nome feci in lingua toscana.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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 Erasmus, Desiderius
The things witnesses tell us have formerly existed in their imaginations, and the *how of this existence determines in a large degree the quale of what they offer us.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
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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