mysterianism

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noun

The view that the explanation of consciousness is not possible by humans.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounmysterianism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe view that the explanation of consciousness is not possible by humans.
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    The latter contention may be motivated in one of two ways: either by appeal to positively characterized and seemingly conflictive features of the mental and the physical (in which case we might always reject dualism in favor of a materialist mysterianism such as McGinn’s 1999 ), or simply by failing to characterize positively the relevant domain of non-mental entities with which mentality is in need of reconciliation.

    2007 August 9, Neal Judisch, “Why ‘non-mental’ won’t work: on Hempel’s dilemma and the characterization of the ‘physical’”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3, →DOI
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