Definition of "quale" []

• A property, such as whiteness, considered independently from things having the property. (noun)

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• "The old Nazi was being held at Quale Prison, and as it happens, the word quale is directly linked to a philosophical term dealing with — in wikipedia’s words — “the subjective quality of conscious experience.”"
• "If a quale is a representatum, then it is represented under a mode of presentation, and modes of presentation may be narrow even when the representational content itself is wide."
• "(But as previously mentioned, it turns out that Rey's theory is not a theory of qualia in the strict first-order sense of "quale" used here; see Section 4.5.)"