Sentence examples for spectrum argument from inspiring English sources

(Similar remarks go for the inverted spectrum argument against physicalism).

Consider the inverted spectrum argument (see the entry on inverted qualia).

Almost uncontroversially: if an inverted spectrum argument against physicalism works at all, then a simple zombie scenario will equally serve the purpose.[34] It is widely held that perceptual experiences represent the perceiver's environment as being a certain way.

So, as with conceptual coherence, any inverted spectrum argument against functionalism that relies on Cartesian intuitions can be converted into an equally plausible and simpler argument that makes no mention of the inverted spectrum.

Block and Fodor (1972), who invented the terminology of 'inverted qualia', were the first to formulate an inverted spectrum argument against functionalism, specifically Turing machine functionalism as defended in Putnam 1967.[29] Ignoring the details of particular functionalisms, the argument is exactly parallel to the one against behaviorism.

And in any case, just like the inverted spectrum argument against behaviorism, functionalism and physicalism (see subsection 3.1 above), inverted spectrum scenarios are not playing an essential role in the case for the gap, and indeed Levine 2001 leans more heavily on "absent qualia" scenarios: "The conceivability of zombies…is the principal manifestation of the explanatory gap" (79).

On the other end of the spectrum are arguments holding that Al Qaeda's dangers have been vastly overstated and that the best way to contain its potential may simply be to ignore its leadership and propaganda until they both whither away.

On one end of the spectrum are arguments that turn on the idea that there are direct conceptual entailments from meaning statements to normative consequences; on the other end are arguments that depend on substantial theoretical assumptions about meaning.

These techniques use theoretical wind spectra as argument of stochastic functions that generate partially correlated data series which once fed into a numerical integration procedure gives synthetic dynamic response histories.

It is always good fun when beltway hacks attack each other, although at the higher end of the spectrum, the arguments are a little harder to decipher.

If this is the case then airway inflammation is not a major contributor to the lung cancer sputum spectrum strengthening the argument that the molecular changes observed are cancer-specific.