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According to the adverbial theory, Bertie's experience involves no thing, either actual or nonactual, that is green.
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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Lycan contends that perceptual representation is layered, and vision in particular represents physical objects such as trees by representing items called "shapes," most of which are nonactual; in the trees case differing shapes are represented.
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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The quale, the greenness of the blob, is (like the blob itself) a nonactual intentional object.
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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(And one should question whether, as Loar maintains, nonactual things and people cannot resemble actual ones.) 4.3 Unconscious Representation
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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It is just that in his case the tomato is not real; it and its redness are nonactual intentional contents.
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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Some philosophers are squeamish about the representationalist's commitment to nonactual objects in cases of hallucination or perceptual illusion.
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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A state of affairs can be actual or nonactual; only an actual good, says Rowe, could justify a perfect being in permitting E [1] and E [2] (or, indeed, any other evil).
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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Russell mistook a nonactual material thing for an actual immaterial thing.)
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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