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Like the idea-action map invoked by "big screamy queen," it distills a picture of reality used and re-used, having maybe little, maybe something, maybe nothing to do with lived, inter-subjective experience -- offensive for its short hand, dangerous for its presumptions in all three cases.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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Like the idea-action map invoked by "big screamy queen," it distills a picture of reality used and re-used, having maybe little, maybe something, maybe nothing to do with lived, inter-subjective experience -- offensive for its short hand, dangerous for its presumptions in all three cases.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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Like the idea-action map invoked by "big screamy queen," it distills a picture of reality used and re-used, having maybe little, maybe something, maybe nothing to do with lived, inter-subjective experience -- offensive for its short hand, dangerous for its presumptions in all three cases.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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Like the idea-action map invoked by "big screamy queen," it distills a picture of reality used and re-used, having maybe little, maybe something, maybe nothing to do with lived, inter-subjective experience -- offensive for its short hand, dangerous for its presumptions in all three cases.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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My complaint there is that conscious awareness is the single factor in our inter-subjective human experience that can differentiate mental from physical cause.
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Some philosophers have objected, though, that Grice's increasingly confident insistence that performance corroborates natural meaning (now located in formal sentence structure rather than illocutionary act) arrests the dialogic or inter-subjective direction taken by his early, more tentative theory of meaning.
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I have argued here that once ID qualifies its concept of "intelligence" with the concept of consciousness, their statements become meaningful by reference to our inter-subjective verification of conscious awareness.
Aiguy's Computer 2008
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Adoption of a common, verbally transmitted, inter-subjective understanding of reality became necessary to participate in tribal activities.
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Adoption of a common, verbally transmitted, inter-subjective understanding of reality became necessary to participate in tribal activities.
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We could very well establish an inter-subjective moral system predicated upon common goals, but we have no objective basis for criticizing individuals that do not share those common goals.
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