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Paul Merriam

2 papers in the library · publishing 2022

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Knowledge Arguments for Time

Qeios October 20, 2022 Paul Merriam preprint

Jackson (1982) introduced the Knowledge Argument to elucidate the phenomenal, interior aspects of experience. In 1908 McTaggart defined two series that characterize one dimension of time, the A-series and the B-series. The A-series is usually thought to be phenomenal Farr (2019), SEP (2018). Thus there is the possibility of giving a Knowledge Argument for time. One (informal) statement of the...

A Calculus of Qualia

Paul Merriam

The idea of this paper is to put actual qualia into equations (broadly understood) to get what might be called _qualations_. Qualations arguably have different meanings and truth behaviors than the analogous equations. For example, the term ‘ black ’ arguably has a different meaning and behavior than the term ‘ ⬛ ’. This is a step in the direction of a ‘calculus of qualia’ and of expanding...