The experiences of other individuals cannot, as such, form a common and larger set of experiences, because if the content and truth conditions of thoughts depend on relations within a single consciousness, then different individuals would have incommensurable experiences and thoughts.
(used to describe how we determine whether a thought accurately represents reality)
The specific circumstances or facts that would make a statement true or false—what has to be the case for a thought to be correct.
consciousness(Philosophy of mind; framing the 'What is consciousness?' question)
A dynamic process characterized by self-transforming flow, intentional coherence, and semantic self-understanding, rather than a static or momentary state.
incommensurable(The side and diagonal of a cube are incommensurable, posing a problem for minima theory)
Two magnitudes whose ratio cannot be expressed as a ratio of whole numbers
Green’s main argument for this form of absolute idealism seems to be his concern with the possibility of error (PE §26). Just as we must make room for the possibility of local error in an individual’s conscious experience, so too we have to allow for the possibility of systematic error within an individual’s conscious experience. But just as the idealist explains the possibility of local individual error against the background of larger patterns in the individual’s experience, so too she must ex