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    Challenges→If veridical visual experiences and hallucinatory experiences share a common phenomenal character, then conscious experiences are not to be individuated solely by phenomenal character

    The disjunctivist's appeal to object-constituency conflates the metaphysical question of what makes an experience veridical with the phenomenological question of what individuates its character.

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    Character (of an experience)(philosophy of mind)
    The specific qualitative feel or nature of an experience—what it's actually like to see the color red or feel pain, independent of whether that experience is accurate.
    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Individuates(God individuates each monad)
    The act of making something distinct and separate as its own unique thing.
    Object-constituency(philosophy of perception)
    The idea that what an experience actually contains or is made up of includes the real objects you're perceiving, not just mental images or representations of those objects.
    Phenomenological

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    (describing the approach to studying self-awareness in this debate)
    Related to phenomenology, the philosophical study of what it's actually like to experience things and how consciousness works from the inside.
    disjunctivism(Used by naive realists to respond to the argument from hallucination)
    The claim that causally matching veridical and hallucinatory experiences are fundamentally different in kind
    metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant
    veridical(Used to describe experiences whose content matches reality)
    Accurate; correctly representing how things are

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