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    It is not the case that Frank Jackson's knowledge argument shows that Mary learns a new qualitative fact upon seeing red, irreducible to any relational or dispositional claim about external objects.

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    • 1.Mary gains new ability to recognize, imagine, and remember red, not new factual knowledge irreducible to physical and functional properties.
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    • 2.The argument conflates learning-that with learning-how; knowing what red is like doesn't require non-physical facts about external objects.
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    • 3.Complete physical information includes all facts about Mary's brain states, so no genuine epistemic gap exists—only limitations in her prior access.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Mary gains new subjective knowledge of what red looks like that she lacked despite complete physical facts about color wavelengths and neural responses.
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    • 2.No amount of information about external objects' relational properties logically entails facts about phenomenal experience or quale structure.
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    • 3.Mary's epistemic gap before and after seeing red is genuine—not merely linguistic—showing some facts exceed physical description.
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