Mary the colorblind neuroscientist learns all physical facts about color vision yet gains new knowledge upon first seeing red, demonstrating physicalism leaves facts out (Jackson 1982).

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Colorblind (neuroscientist)(Mary's condition in the thought experiment): In this context, someone who cannot see colors but has perfect scientific knowledge about how color vision works in the brain—not someone who is blind to color discrimination in general.
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.
Physical facts(as facts that fictionalists accept as real): Truths about the material world—things like 'water boils at 100 degrees Celsius' or 'atoms have electrons'—that can be measured and tested.
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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