[worrycue]

> Take for example in philosophy of mind where qualitative descriptions of the colour red are more relevant to the discussion than quantitative descriptions of it, such as it’s frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum.

How is it more relevant? Is there some property of the color red that physics doesn't cover?

> Your average philosophy graduate student is comfortable expressing virtually any proposition in first order logic, or even other types of symbolic logic.

So can mathematicians and most engineers. So we are on the same level.

So what is it that students of humanities supposedly can do that STEM can't?

[flippinburgers]

They can make fluffy, borderline poetic phrases like "qualitative descriptions of the color red" that, frankly, mean nothing. Emotional sure, but the actual quality of a color is its wavelength for instance.