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    It is not the case that The sense-datum theory provides a simple account of entailment relations between qualia-statements in terms of the actual structure of sense-data.

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    • 1.Sense-data are theoretical posits whose existence and structure remain philosophically contested, making entailments grounded in them epistemically fragile.
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    • 2.Sellars's 'Myth of the Given' demonstrates that sense-data cannot serve as foundational truth-makers because their properties are not self-interpreting or theory-independent.
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    • 3.If sense-data lack determinate structure independent of conceptual frameworks, entailment relations derived from that structure inherit the same indeterminacy.
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    • 1.The sense-datum theory conflates the logical structure of qualia-statements with the ontological structure of putative mental objects, committing a use-mention error.
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    • 2.Adverbialists like Chisholm and Tye show that qualia-statements can be analyzed as modifications of sensing events without positing structured objects, dissolving the entailment account's special advantage.
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    • 3.If 'sensing redly and squarely' entails 'sensing redly' through adverbial logic alone, the sense-datum theory's structural account is explanatorily redundant, not foundational.
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    • 1.Under the sense-datum theory, qualia-statements are equivalent to statements about the sensing of structured sense-data (e.g., 'e has Q_{Rx ∧ Sq(x)}' is equivalent to 'e is a sensing of a red and square sense-datum').
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    • 2.The entailment 'e is a sensing of a red and square sense-datum' entails 'e is a sensing of a red sense-datum' follows clearly from the actual structure of the sense-datum.
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