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    Scrutinizing assumptions about Revelation leaves intact t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Levin's reply to McGinn's phenomenological problem relies on scrutinizing the assumptions that underpin McGinn's criticism

    Scrutinizing assumptions about Revelation leaves intact the core intuition that dispositional properties cannot fully capture phenomenal redness.

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    • 1.Phenomenal redness has intrinsic qualitative character that seems independent of how objects dispose us to respond.
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    • 2.Dispositional accounts struggle to explain why redness feels the way it does rather than some other way entirely.
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    • 3.Revelatory experiences of color seem to disclose non-relational properties that dispositionalism cannot accommodate.
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    • 1.Scrutinizing assumptions about Revelation may undermine the intuition itself, not preserve it—introspection is unreliable.
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    • 2.Modern dispositional accounts can incorporate phenomenal character without abandoning dispositional frameworks entirely.
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    • 3.The intuition that phenomenal redness exceeds dispositions may reflect conceptual confusion rather than metaphysical insight.
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