Spanish C2 · Day 18
Day 18: Vivencia consciente y hueco teórico — Ellipsis and Spanish sluicing
What you'll learn
- Grammar: Ellipsis and Spanish sluicing
- Reading: La custodia del hueco teórico
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Grammar point: Ellipsis and Spanish sluicing
Nominal ellipsis lets a writer omit a noun once gender and number on the remnant can recover it. A journal referee might write: «La reseña de la vivencia es minuciosa; la del hueco teórico, todavía provisional.» Readers reconstruct «la reseña del hueco teórico». The remnant keeps the contrast visible; the omitted noun would only have repeated known material.
Key vocabulary (8 of 33 words)
- la consciencia fenoménica – consciousness understood as subjective experience (technical)
- los qualia – the subjective qualities of experience (technical; plural)
- el hueco explicativo – the explanatory gap between physical processes and experience
- la perspectiva de primera persona – the first-person perspective
- la tonalidad subjetiva – what an experience feels like to the person having it
- la superveniencia – dependence such that no difference at one level occurs without a difference at another (technical)
- la reducibilidad – the possibility of explaining something entirely in more basic terms
- el dualismo de propiedades – the view that mental and physical properties are distinct (technical)
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