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PROPERTY DUALISM_ The Knowledge Argument
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PROPERTY DUALISM: The KnowledgeArgument
response to mary would already know-✔✔- powerful intuition
- hard to make sense how someone could know what it is like to see red by
leanring facts
- some parts of experience cannot be accounted for by facts and
knowledge alone
jackson add further response
- even if it were possible that mary could imagine red from physical facts
- this would not mean mary would KNOW what it is like to see red
- imagining and knowing are diffferent
doesnot know what red is like
frank jackson-✔✔-Mary learns all physical facts about the world including
physical facts about human experiences of colour
- mary knows all the physical facts about colour
- but mary does not know what it is feels like to see colour
- therefore what it is feels like to see colour is not a physical fact
- physicalism says that all facts are physical
- therefore physicalism is false
the ability response-✔✔- mary new knowledge is physical knowledge not
just propositional knowledge
- as she sees colour, she gains ability knowledge, knowledge that cannot
be learned from books alone , like learning how to ride a bike
- mary leans all physical facts about bikes. she cannot ride a bike when she
is given bicycle for first time since she just knows all the physical facts
about riding a bicycle. hence learning how to ride a bicycle is not aphysical
fact
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