Strawson on Experience and Experiencers
Joseph Polanik
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
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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
Well, of course, this is correct.
But there is a qualification:
Neither the "experience" nor the "experiencer" exists prior to the
'movement' of self-reflection itself.
Prior to the 'movement' of self-reflection there is, in essence, nothing. It
is only afterwards that an experiencer is able to acknowledge that it is, in
fact, an experiencer of what was an experience.
Self-reflection is not only the origin of the experiencer/experience; but,
also, all dependent dualities--dualities which have an inter-dependent
necessity.
Michael Cecil
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