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Milton Keynes has a phenomenal character.
I thought Nicole Kidman was a phenomenal character actress in The Blue Room at the Donmar.
Some disjunctivists claim that veridical perceptions have a phenomenal character that hallucinations cannot possess.
This would also explain why we talk of experiences *having* qualia or *having* a phenomenal character.
A Kantian account of conceptual-sensory experience, or "intuition", would endorse a phenomenal character in these types of experience.
As the term 'experiences' is used here, it is definitional of experiences that they have a phenomenal character.
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A restrictive view holds that only sensory experience has a proper phenomenal character, a what-it-is-like.
But if qualia are causally impotent, how can a person know that she has an experience with a particular phenomenal character?
If phenomenal characters are non-physical properties and if every physical event has a physical cause and if we exclude the possibility of overdetermination (where something is caused by two different causes that are both sufficient), then, arguably, whether or not a state has a particular phenomenal character cannot have any causal relevance.
All proponents of the view point out that, according to their proposal, physical concepts and phenomenal concepts are cognitively independent: it is impossible to see a priori that something that falls under a physical concept of a particular phenomenal character also falls under the corresponding phenomenal concept of that phenomenal character.
A somewhat more expansive view would hold that perceptual experience has a distinctive phenomenal character even where sensation is informed by concepts.
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