Meanings
- not comparableCapable of being experienced.
This is a travesty of the idea of a quale. If the term qualia has any use at all it is to designate experientable differences; significantly different qualia can, in principle, be recognised as different. The point is not purely verbal.
1994: Howard Robinson, Perception, page 126 (Routledge; →ISBN, 978‒0415033640)2 more examples
…Carnap which focuses upon how the sensation is given and upon sense-data, the most basic observable experientable unit and (2) the concept of the given of the Ordinary Language School and especially L. Wittgenstein and P. Winch who focus more upon…
1968, Catholic Anthropological Conference, Anthropological Quarterly, Catholic University of America Press, page 362000: “leonardo dasso”, alt.talk.creationism: What % of evolutionists here are not athiests?, the 2ⁿᵈ day of October at 8 o’clock a.m. Once you start refering to observable, experientable entities, you are in the realm of the empirical, and therefore, these entities can become the subject of scientific research.
Origin
experient- (stem of experience, experiential) + -able
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