Ontological Minimalism about Phenomenology SUSANNA
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entities, we do not stand in awareness relations to concepts when we employ concepts. Moreover, on the notion of concepts in play, there cannot be a perceptual concept that has not been employed to refer to the very mind-independent objects or property-instances that the concept is of. Third, the view satisfies the Aristotelian principle according to which the existence of any type depends on its tokens that in turn depend on concrete entities of the physical world. In this respect, the view is at an advantage over any view that must assume a Platonic ‘two realms’-view. Finally, the view accounts for the phenomenology of perceptions and hallucinations in terms of relations to external, mind-independent objects and propertyinstances. Thereby, it amounts to a naturalized view of the phenomenology of experience.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009