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    Supports→The color physicalist must explain what the features presented in or represented in color experience are, given that those features are distinct from reflectances.

    Johnston's 'revelation thesis' shows color experience presents properties as intrinsic, creating a structural mismatch that forces physicalists to identify a distinct categorical base.

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    Categorical base(metaphysics/philosophy of color)
    The fundamental, unchanging physical thing that actually exists—in this case, the material properties of a surface that cause color.
    Johnston(the philosopher being referenced)
    Mark Johnston is a contemporary philosopher who works on perception and philosophy of mind; he's known for responding to criticisms about how we understand what counts as correct or accurate perception.
    Revelation thesis(The main idea being explained in the statement)
    Johnston's theory that when you see a color, your experience directly shows you real properties that actually exist in the object itself, not just in your mind.
    Structural mismatch(The problem Johnston's thesis creates for physicalist theories)
    A situation where two things don't fit together properly because their underlying structures are incompatible.

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    color experience(as used in philosophy of perception and consciousness)
    What it's actually like to see color—the subjective feeling and perception you have when you look at something colored, not just the physical facts about light wavelengths.
    intrinsic properties(Contrasted with structural properties revealed by physics)
    Properties which supposedly underlie and account for the structural properties of things.
    physicalism(The target position that the knowledge argument is designed to refute)
    The thesis that physical theory can in principle account for everything there is to know about the world

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