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    Challenges→Omnisubjectivity is better thought of as a further extension of divine cognitive perfection rather than a rejection of standard definitions of omniscience.

    Jackson's knowledge argument shows that Mary gains new knowledge upon seeing red despite complete physical information, meaning propositional saturation cannot ground subjective knowing.

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    Frank Jackson(referenced as the originator of an argument in philosophy of mind)
    A philosopher who created a famous thought experiment called the 'Knowledge Argument' to challenge the idea that the physical world is all that exists.
    Ground (or grounding)(explaining what provides the basis for requirements)
    To serve as the foundation or reason for something; to explain why something is true or obligatory.
    Jackson's knowledge argument(as the main subject of the statement)
    A famous thought experiment by philosopher Frank Jackson about Mary, a scientist who knows everything physical about color but has never seen it herself. The argument asks whether Mary learns something genuinely new the first time she actually sees red, and if so, whether that challenges the idea that all knowledge can be reduced to physical facts.
    Propositional saturation(as used in philosophy of mind)
    The idea that if you know all the facts (propositions) about something—all the information that can be written down or stated—then you know everything there is to know about it.

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    Subjective knowing (or subjective knowledge)(as used in epistemology)
    Knowledge that comes from personal, first-hand experience—like knowing what chocolate tastes like because you've eaten it, not just from reading about it.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
    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.

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