Philosophy A-Level
Intuition and thought experiments
What Intuition and thought experiments means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The intuition that the nation as a whole has no experiences, treated as a premise that functionalists can and do dispute.
Topics that use Intuition and thought experiments
- Functionalism (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Absent qualia
- Functional role
- Functionalism
- Functionalism and multiple realisability
- Multiple realisability
- Qualia
- The knowledge argument
- Block's China thought experiment
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