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    Inverse View

    It is not the case that The Inverted Earth scenario sidesteps standard objections to inverted spectrum arguments

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    • 1.Ned Block's own analysis concedes that Inverted Earth subjects gradually shift their mental color representations toward local usage, producing functional inversion over time.
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    • 2.If functional inversion eventually occurs through semantic deference to the community, then Inverted Earth reintroduces the very semantic adaptation problem it purports to avoid, merely delayed rather than eliminated.
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    • 3.An objection that is deferred rather than structurally dissolved does not constitute a genuine sidestepping of the original problem.
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    • 1.Hilary Putnam's semantic externalism entails that the content of color terms is fixed by the actual environmental samples in the subject's world, not by internal phenomenal states.
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    • 2.On this externalist account, an Inverted Earth subject's term 'red' refers to Inverted Earth's sky-colored objects, so there is no genuine content divergence between phenomenal character and representational content.
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    • 3.If externalism eliminates the content divergence Inverted Earth requires to generate its conclusion, then the scenario fails to sidestep the objection and instead inherits a deeper semantic vulnerability.
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    • 1.Standard objections to inverted spectrum scenarios involve complications arising from overnight inversion, including confusion, semantic adaptation, and amnesia
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    • 2.In the Inverted Earth scenario, color-inverting lenses are fitted before transport, so no overnight inversion occurs and the subject notices no visible change upon arrival
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    • 3.Because the subject notices no change and converses smoothly with locals, the complications of confusion, semantic adaptation, and amnesia do not arise
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