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    Therefore, the possibility of anti-zombies presupposes the falsity of the most defensible form of mind-brain identity theory, making the argument question-begging against a well-established physicalist tradition.

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    Anti-zombies(Introduced by Frankish 2007 as a parallel construction to philosophical zombies)
    Duplicates of ourselves made conscious by the purely physical facts
    Mind-brain identity theory(as used in philosophy of mind)
    The philosophical idea that your thoughts, feelings, and consciousness are literally the same thing as physical processes happening in your brain—not separate from it.
    Presupposes(as describing what Plantinga's argument takes for granted)
    Assumes something to be true without proving it—like how an argument might presuppose that logic works, without first arguing that logic is valid.
    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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    question-begging(Epistemology, anti-skeptical argumentation)
    A charge leveled against anti-skeptical arguments that assume what they set out to prove, particularly in Putnamian externalist arguments

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