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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Notebooks' and 'The Intentionality of Sensation'

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15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 5. Qualia / b. Qualia and intentionality

7439	The qualities involved in sensations are entirely intentional [Anscombe, by Armstrong]
	Full Idea: Anscombe argued that the qualities involved in sensations are one and all intentional only (and I think this holds even for the bodily sensations).
	From: report of G.E.M. Anscombe (The Intentionality of Sensation [1965]) by David M. Armstrong - Pref to new 'Materialist Theory' p.xxii
	A reaction: Compare Harry Gildersleve's exactly opposite proposal in Idea 7272. I think I am coming round to the Anscombe view, which builds the more mysterious up from the less mysterious. Gildersleve must explain how atomic qualia arise.

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 2. Imagination

8094	The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert]
	Full Idea: The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.
	From: Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1797)
	A reaction: As a fan of the imagination, I love this one. I suspect that imagination, which was marginalised by Descartes, is actually the single most important aspect of thought (in slugs as well as humans). Abstraction requires imagination.