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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.

    Mary may acquire a new phenomenal concept of the same physical property she already knew under a physical description, just as 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorus' differ conceptually but refer to the same object.

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    Hesperus and Phosphorus(as a historical philosophical reference)
    Two ancient names for the same celestial object (the planet Venus), used as a famous philosophical example because people didn't realize they referred to the same thing.
    phenomenal concept(May be discursive, demonstrative, or more direct.)
    A concept whose denotation is a phenomenal property.
    physical description(Distinguished from a description suitable for strict-law subsumption)
    A description of an event using only physical concepts, of the sort invoked in physics as the most mature science and the one closest to issuing in strict laws.
    physical property(what Mary already knew scientifically)
    A characteristic or feature of something that can be measured or studied by science, like color, size, or chemical composition.

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