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    Supports→Representationalism provides a simple account of entailment relations between qualia-statements in terms of the apparent structure of the objects of experiences.

    The entailment 'e is an experience of something's looking red and square' entails 'e is an experience of something's looking red' follows clearly from the apparent structure of the represented content.

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    apparent structure(as used in analyzing how we perceive and think about things)
    The way something seems to be organized or arranged based on how we understand it.
    entailment(Conceptualist framework)
    Understood in terms of truth at a world
    experience(The sense in which experience can help account for knowledge of an order of nature)

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    The actual information or meaning that your mind is picturing or thinking about—what you're mentally representing to yourself.

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    Now notice that there are many entailment relations between qualia-statements—for example, ‘\(e\) has \(Q_{Rx \amp Sq(x)}\)’ entails ‘\(e\) has \(Q_{Rx}\)’, and ‘\(e\) has \(Q_{Rx \amp Tr(x) \amp By \amp Sq(y)}\)’ entails ‘\(e\) has \(Q_{Rx \amp Sq(y)}\)’, and so on. The orthodox representationalist and the sense-datum theorist have simple accounts of these entailments in terms of the structure of the objects of experiences (apparent structure, for the representationalist; actual structure, for

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