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    It is not the case that Adverbialists like Chisholm and Tye show that qualia-statements can be analyzed as modifications of sensing events without positing structured objects, dissolving the entailment account's special advantage.

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    • 1.Adverbialism struggles to explain why different sensings (pain vs. itch) feel qualitatively distinct if both modify the same sensing event.
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    • 2.The claim that modifier-analysis dissolves entailment advantage begs the question by assuming sensing-manner suffices for phenomenal properties.
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    • 3.Chisholm's adverbial semantics cannot account for impossible phenomenal combinations (reddish-greenness), which structured content handles naturally.
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    • 1.Adverbialism avoids ontological commitment to qualia-objects, providing simpler metaphysics than representationalism requiring structured content.
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    • 2.Sensory modification accounts explain qualitative character through how we sense, not what we represent, dissolving the binding problem.
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    • 3.If qualia reduce to sensing-manner properties, the special explanatory burden of structured objects becomes unmotivated.
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