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Explanatory gap

In the philosophy of mind, the explanatory gap is the difficulty that physicalist philosophies have in explaining how physical properties give rise to the way things feel subjectively when they are experienced. It is a term introduced by philosopher Joseph Levine. In the 1983 paper in which he first used the term, he used as an example the sentence…

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Explanatory gap → He, Joseph Levine, Others, Some, The, There, They, Those, Zombie
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Explanatory gap → difficulty that physicalist philosophies have in explaining how physical properties give rise to the way things feel subjectively when they are experienced
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