[Wittrs] Re: Strawson on Experience and Experiencers

  • From: "BruceD" <blroadies@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:44:05 -0000

--- 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]

Is there a typo here or am I not following this? "There cannot be
experience with a subject of experience"
(without a subject of experience?)

> since this proposition (that experience implies an experiencer)

What is the relationship between the experience and the experiencer?

bruce







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