Sunday, April 19, 2009

Qualia

The plural word 'Qualia', from the Latin for ‘what sort’ or ‘what kind’, is a term of art used in philosophy for sensory occurrences of all kinds. The word itself originates with the American philosopher of the early twentieth century, Clarence Irving Lewis, who considered them distinct from the properties of objects.
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talk nineteen to the dozen

  to speak rapidly and without stopping

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