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What Mary didn't know

Isobel Dawson English

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  1. Imagination is a faculty that those who LACK knowledge need to fall back on

  2. WHAT MARY DIDN'T KNOW

  3. Her know knowing "what it is like" is not a failure of her logically following through on her physical knowledge

  4. NOT a change in her physical states that she has not had the chance to experience before: something about other people

  5. 1) Mary knows everything there is to know about brain states and their properties. (Knowledge by description)

    2) It is not the case that Mary knows everything there is to know about sensations and their properties (Knowledge by acquaintance)

    3) Sensations and their properties are different from brain states and their properties

  6. NOT the Knowledge argument

    Doesn't know about properties --> Qualia

    Equivocating on the meaning of the word knowledge

    NOt how we come to know but what we know

  7. Imagination is not the point: If she can imagine she already know. This is irrelevant because if she knows anything then she shouldn't need to know anything more with imagination

    Intentionality of knowledge is not the point??? Having all the knowledge but keeping it separate. NOT A LOCK TO INFER FROM ONE TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE TO ANOTHER

    Experience of others and not her own --> When she has the experience she sees what everybody does. Words to pick up wavelengths of light. INFERS that everybody else always had this and she was lacking

  8. Knew about Qualia and dualism. Physicalism + non physical facts of dualism,

    Still doesn't know what it is like! Only through experience.

    Attack two things that are opposite to each other --> not a good argument

  9. OTHER: Can't even imagine

    Not relevant, but it does point out that there is a lack of knowledge

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