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The Knowledge Argument

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The knowledge argument: Mary knows every physical fact about color, studied from a black-and-white room; seeing red teaches her something new—so some facts are not physical.

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Her first red tomato, on release day. Nothing in the completed textbooks, Jackson argues, prepared her for that.