Orthodox phenomenism, identifying qualia with bare experiential character without objects or content, lacks any structural substrate from which entailment relations could be derived.
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A philosophical view that says the only things we can really know about are our own experiences and sensations, not necessarily the external world behind them.
Substrate(as the underlying physical foundation being discussed)
The physical stuff or material that something is made of or runs on; in this case, the brain as the physical basis for mental states.
qualia(The passage presents two competing definitions to contrast the views)
On the Cartesian picture: intrinsic qualities of inner ideas of which subjects are directly aware, necessarily shared by internal duplicates regardless of environment. On wide representationalism: representational contents of inner states whose nature is partly externally determined