quale
noun
a quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
qualia
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pluralof quale.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Shouldn’t we appreciate that some things, whether we call them self-report or qualia or something else, will always be outside the realm of the scientifically accessible?
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2012
