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Why There are no Successful Candidates for SQ-Sensations Objective Reality Content

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Introduction by Grok 4.3 (edited & modified) The sensation of cold raises a specific difficulty for Descartes’s account of objective reality. Although the sensation presents a positive phenomenal character—the felt coolness of which the perceiver is directly aware—it is not clear what, if anything, serves as its internal representatum. No quality or nature appears to […]