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In philosophy of mind, the knowledge argument (also known as Mary's Room, Mary the Colour Scientist, or Mary the super-scientist) is a thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article "Epiphenomenal Qualia" (1982), and extended in "What Mary Didn't Know" (1986).
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge argument | is a | attack on the physicalist claim about the completeness of physical explanations of mental states | 0.90 | text |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | Jackson's | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | Nida-Rümelin | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | Jackson | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | He | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | Mary | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | Wow | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | Mary's | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | This | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | Since | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | In | 0.60 | section |
| Knowledge argument | related to Dualist responses and Jackson's reconsideration of the argument | Philip Pettit | 0.60 | section |
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