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    Broad treats presentedness as a primitive phenomenal prop... — Carmelics
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    Broad treats presentedness as a primitive phenomenal property that cannot be further elucidated

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    • 1.Broad is silent on how presentedness works as a phenomenal property
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    • 2.The only available construal of presentedness (Humean force and vivacity) fails to do the required explanatory work
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    • 3.When a theorist offers no account of how a property functions, the property is being treated as primitive
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    • 1.Treating a phenomenal property as primitive is a legitimate and often necessary theoretical move, as Moore demonstrated with 'good' in Principia Ethica.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates absence of reductive analysis with absence of philosophical elucidation, a distinction Broad's holistic approach respects.
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    • 3.Broad's silence on mechanism is consistent with a principled anti-reductionist stance, not an oversight or theoretical failure.
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    • 1.Broad explicitly grounds presentedness in the specious present framework inherited from James and Husserl, providing structural phenomenological context.
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    • 2.Locating a property within an established theoretical framework constitutes elucidation even when no reductive analysis is offered.
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    How does the property of presentedness work? How does one phenomenal characteristic manage to make one or more other phenomenal characteristics appear to be less than wholly present? The question is of interest because the only obvious way of construing ‘different degrees of presentedness’ is in terms of different degrees of Humean force and vivacity: a memory-image of a red balloon could easily be described as seeming ‘less present’ in this sense than a perceptual experience of a red balloon. B
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