David Lewis and Lawrence Nemirow's ability hypothesis holds that Mary gains new know-how—abilities to recognize, imagine, and remember color—not knowledge of new propositional facts about distinct properties.
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The ability hypothesis(as the main theory being explained)
A theory that argues when you learn something new (like what red looks like), you're really just gaining new skills or abilities to recognize and imagine things, rather than learning facts about the world.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
properties(Contrasted with substances as ontologically dependent entities.)
Entities that depend for their existence on substances, being properties of individual objects.