If phenomenal knowledge is reducible to the acquisition of abilities rather than new facts, then all facts about conscious experience are already capturable within a complete third-person physical description.
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Third-person physical description(philosophy of mind)
A complete scientific account of something described from an outside, objective perspective using only measurable, physical information—like describing brain activity without mentioning what it feels like to experience something.
facts(Used as relata in form (1) of the correspondence theory)
States of affairs that obtain; unlike states of affairs in general, facts cannot serve as meanings of false sentences without absurd consequences
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.