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1. Recognizable qualitative characters of the given.--C. I. Lewis (1929)
2. Parts of experiential knowledge, i.e., that which can only be known through experience.
3. The introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our mental lives.--Stanford Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
4. Simplest forms of experience.
5. Outlets of the flow of experience (from consciousness).
6. Finest levels of (mental) qualities.
7. Finest levels of feeling.
8. Junction points between being and experiencing.
9. Starting points of becoming.
10. Introspectible and seemingly monadic properties of sense datum, but universal, not particular.
11. 'Quale' is to 'quality' as 'quantum' is to 'quantity'. (Etymologically)
12. Subjective qualities of conscious experience.
13. Subjective sensations. --Ramachandran & Blakeslee (1998)
14. Orderly modes of consciousness.
1. Philosophers and scientists alike have pondered qualia for a long time without resolution.

2. AI researchers wonder whether machines that pass the Turing Test would experience qualia, and whether they would even need to do so.

3. It is difficult to deny the existence of qualia.

4. Our failure to define qualia also makes people wonder if color are experienced differently by each person--how can we tell if some people see colors inverted, since they would still call roses red and grass green?

5. Qualia could occur only in the presence, interfacing the future and the past. You can remember the information about events, but not the actual feeling you had at that time. You could remember, for example, having been angry at receiving a parking ticket--but this is information not actually the feeling, since the police officer also remembers you being angry. If the memory makes you angry, then your present anger is a new experience--not the original experience. But this is good; otherwise, we could recall qualia such as pain--and headaches might never end.
qualia by hyperlinguist December 17, 2006
Words you can keep
I don't know Matt. It sounds like more vapid skepticism for the sake of being obtuse to spite someone. It's "If there's no evidence of rape then no rape has occurred" level of thinking. Or "If there is no evidence you think in pictures and words then I have no reason to believe that people think in pictures or words." And there are hints of "We want to accuse and punish you for stealing our content so we're stealing from you but really we don't care about the content or even think you were trying to steal from us, we don't like what you said about rape women retards child et cetra so we're stealing from you because we don't like how you responded to both what was happening to you and around you.
Hym "If haven't learned a lesson about rape or anything Matt. And you at no point thought this was a thought experiment. You thought I was lying to make you look bad and you found out I was telling the truth after Jordan Peterson told me to "leave" and now you're just doing whatever you can to make me regret doing this. And I don't. Kendra didn't get raped or extorted. You CAN know that I'm telling the truth. I'm not stealing your content. You want me to have to be the thing you've labeled me and now you're doing this. You (just like Kendra) are a peace of shit who chose wrong. Fuck your qualia."
Qualia by Hym Iam April 11, 2025

Qualia Wills 

A great kisser who is the best person to hangout with. She is someone who is never awkward and I love her
Qualia Wills by Moonkebal June 5, 2022

qualia rose wills

is my entire world, shes a special girl
qualia rose wills is my entire world

Ta'Qualia 

Ta'Qualia is a boss, she is intelligent, smart, and caring
Did you see that girl name Ta'Qualia
Ta'Qualia by babbigurl May 11, 2021

qualified immunity 

A bizarre policy which prevents police officers from being held accountable when they violate somebody's rights
A cop pulls somebody over for a broken tail light and ends up shooting them.The cop claims he thought their cell phone or whatever was a gun. the victims family might sue the police department in which case any settlement would be paid with tax dollars but because of qualified immunity the police officer can't be personally sued.

qualified impunity

When the police take qualified immunity MANY steps to far in the oppression and murder of black citizens.
Derek Chavin is the embodiment of actions made under the racist oppressive ethos of qualified impunity.
qualified impunity by mshaler June 23, 2020
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I hit a real purple patch.

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And dying in yo' bed many years from now, would ya be willing ta trade all da days from dis here day ta dat fo' one chance, just one chance, ta come back here as young men an' tell our enemies dat dey may take our lives but dey will never take our freedom ... YUB NUB!
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Dancin' gettin' just a little naughty

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2. Movie

A story about a Jersey girl following her dreams, aided by working at this bar in New York.

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See other definitions - waking up next to someone so ugly you'd rather chew your arm off than wake them up.
1. Yo, Coyote Ugly is my favorite bar! I got whipped, stripped, drunk, and danced on the bar all before 7 o'clock!

2. Hey did you see Coyote Ugly? It actually has a plot!

3. Ugg I woke up to Coyote Ugly this morning!
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