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    Supports→Phenomenal consciousness cannot imply any intentionality or content

    The phenomenal character of experience is fixed internally and has no necessary relation to the nature of particular substances in one's external environment or to one's linguistic community

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    External environment(as used in epistemology)
    Everything outside of your mind—the physical world, other people, objects around you.
    Linguistic community(as a potential requirement for self-consciousness)
    A group of people who share and use the same language to communicate with each other.
    Necessary relation(as used in logic and metaphysics)

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    Related propositions within the same area of thought.
    A connection that must exist—if one thing is true, the other automatically has to be true as well.
    experience(The sense in which experience can help account for knowledge of an order of nature)
    Consciousness of events as a related series
    fixed internally(Assumption about the phenomenal character of experience in debates about externalism)
    Having no necessary relation to the nature of particular substances in one's external environment or to one's linguistic community
    phenomenal character(Used to distinguish the mere presence of experience from the specific qualitative nature of individual experiences)
    The qualitative, subjective 'what it is like' aspect of mental states; the property of having qualia
    substances(Used to distinguish the category of substance from that of property in ontology.)
    Individual objects; the entities that properties are predicated of.

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    Externalist arguments (of the sort mentioned in Section 4) have also been taken to support the separation of the “qualitative” from meaning and content (hence the separation of consciousness from intentionality). For it has been sometimes assumed that the phenomenal character of one’s experience is “fixed internally”—i.e., it has no necessary relation to the nature of particular substances in one’s external environment or to one’s linguistic community. Thus if externalist arguments (like those o

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