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    Challenges→There must be a difference in the world between the properties that the old and new concepts of color experience stand for or denote.

    If what Mary acquires upon release is a set of practical abilities rather than propositional knowledge of a new property, the inference from 'new cognitive achievement' to 'new property in the world' is a non sequitur.

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    Key Terms

    Cognitive achievement(what Mary supposedly gains upon release)
    A gain in mental understanding or awareness—learning or discovering something new in your mind.
    Mary(reference to Jackson's famous philosophical thought experiment)
    A thought experiment character created by philosopher Frank Jackson to explore whether learning facts about the world gives you knowledge that can't be gained any other way.
    Practical abilities(contrasted with propositional knowledge)
    Skills or know-how that you can actually do, like knowing how to ride a bike, as opposed to knowing facts about bikes.
    inference(Nyāya epistemology)
    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known
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    (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.
    non sequitur(Used to characterize Kant's alleged inference from the necessity of unity of consciousness to its sufficiency for object representation)
    A logical error in which a conclusion does not follow from the premises offered in its support
    property(Locke's demonstration of the moral proposition 'Where there is no property, there is no injustice.')
    A right to something.
    propositional knowledge(Used to argue that even first-person experiential knowledge involves fallible classification)
    Knowledge expressed as a proposition, which requires classifying the subject matter together with other things of the same type

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