--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Joseph Polanik <jPolanik@...> wrote: > Strawson on Experience and Experiencers > in _Mental Reality_, Second Ed., Galen Strawson quotes Frege as saying > "An experience is impossible without an experiencer" and then comments: > "This is a necessary truth. ... There cannot be experience with a > subject of experience, because experience is necessarily for someone or > something --- an experiencer or subject of experience." [p. 129] > since this proposition (that experience implies an experiencer) has > occasionally been a topic on this list, I thought I'd invite comments on > Strawson's recognition of this principle (which he has dubbed "Frege's > Thesis"). > > Joe We are in agreement on the necessity of an experiencer in the above formulation. Where we have disagreed is over what it means to be an "experiencer". -- SWM ========================================= Need Something? Check here: http://ludwig.squarespace.com/wittrslinks/