Philosophy / Unit 6 Philosophy 0241 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Knowledge Argument
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The idea
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.
In practice
Her first red tomato, on release day. Nothing in the completed textbooks, Jackson argues, prepared her for that.
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