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    It is not the case that Wittgenstein's private language argument implies that qualia concepts derive their meaning from public, interpersonal linguistic practices.

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    • 1.Qualia have intrinsic phenomenal properties independent of how we linguistically express or communicate them.
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    • 2.The argument conflates the privacy of subjective experience with the privacy of language; private experience doesn't entail private meaning.
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    • 3.Public criteria may constrain quale-talk without grounding quale-concepts; internal ostensive definition can still succeed.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein argues we cannot privately ostensively define sensations; meaning requires public criteria of correctness.
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    • 2.If qualia meanings were private, we'd have no way to distinguish genuine memory of a quale from false memory.
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    • 3.Public language provides behavioral criteria that ground quale-terms in interpersonal practice, making them intelligible.
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