Sentence examples for functional facts from inspiring English sources

Chalmers has developed a highly influential anti-physicalist argument along these lines, which relies on a rationalist 2D semantic framework to establish that facts about phenomenal consciousness cannot be reduced to physical or functional facts about the brain (1996 20099).

Harman (1990) argues that Mary does not know all the functional facts concerning human color vision because she lacks the concept of what it is for an object to be red, blue, etc. Flanagan (1992) distinguishes metaphysical physicalism from linguistic physicalism.

In another important, related, challenge to functionalism (and, more generally, physicalism), Thomas Nagel (1974) and Frank Jackson (1982) argue that a person could know all the physical and functional facts about a certain type of experience and still not "know what it's like" to have it.

If there is a chain of two or more functional fact types with uniqueness constraints on all the first roles, a functional binary from the start to the end of this chain is derivable if it is defined by projecting on the joint of these fact types its uniqueness constraint is transitively implied.

In both the causal case and the conscious case, Rosenberg argues the relational-functional facts must ultimately depend upon a categorical non-relational base, and he offers a model according to which causal relations and qualitative phenomenal facts both depend upon the same base.

The New Yorker, March 28 , 1964P. 29 This was the Winter of Dark Glasses; the year when the wearing of shaded spectacles ceased to be seasonal, ceased to be functional, in fact, to have anything much to do with sunshine.

By Roger Angell The New Yorker, March 28 , 1964P. 29 This was the Winter of Dark Glasses; the year when the wearing of shaded spectacles ceased to be seasonal, ceased to be functional, in fact, to have anything much to do with sunshine.

They are not comfortable and they are not functional, in fact, they are a bit of a safety hazard.

In this case the objective functional is, in fact, a function in a finite-dimensional space and the shape gradient becomes an ordinary gradient.

25 Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) tumour-specific components (FACT-B, FACT-C, FACT-Lym and FACT-P for breast, colorectal, NHL and prostate cancer).

23 24 Tumour-specific content included Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) tumour-specific components (FACT-B, FACT-C, FACT-Lym and FACT-P for breast, colorectal, NHL and prostate cancer).