The knowledge argument (also known as Mary's Room, Mary the Colour Scientist, or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed...

Conaill, Donnchadh (2024). "Qualia: The Knowledge Argument § 5. The Dualist View About the Knowledge Argument". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics...

An argument is a series of sentences, statements, or propositions some of which are called premises and one is the conclusion. The purpose of an argument...

most popular argument of this kind is the so-called knowledge argument as formulated by Frank Jackson, titled "Mary's room". The argument asks us to consider...

proof, the argument from authority can be, and often is, an informal fallacy, and obtaining knowledge in this way is fallible. This argument is a form...

developed the zk-SNARK protocol, an acronym for zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge. The first widespread application of zk-SNARKs...

human a knowledge of God's existence. Islamic philosophers who developed arguments for the existence of God comprise Averroes, who made arguments influenced...

philosophy to distinguish types of knowledge, justification, or argument by their reliance on experience. A priori knowledge is independent from any experience...

of the knowledge argument claims not merely that Mary would lack subjective knowledge of "what red looks like," but that she would lack knowledge of an...

distinction between two different kinds of knowledge: knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. Whereas knowledge by description is something like...

A transcendental argument is a kind of deductive argument that appeals to the necessary conditions that make experience and knowledge possible. Transcendental...

to be a reason to reject his principle.: 449–51  Frank Jackson's knowledge argument is based around a hypothetical scientist, Mary, who is forced to view...

possibility of experience and knowledge. A version was formulated by Immanuel Kant in his 1763 work The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration...

antagonism through verbal fighting. Argumentation theory had its origins in foundationalism, a theory of knowledge (epistemology) in the field of philosophy...

An argument map or argument diagram is a visual representation of the structure of an argument. An argument map typically includes all the key components...

and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts,...

knowledge is an awareness of facts that can be expressed using declarative sentences. It is also called theoretical knowledge, descriptive knowledge,...

564-571, 2011. (2010) ‘The Knowledge Argument and Epiphenomenalism’, Erkenntnis 72, pp. 37–56, 2010. (2010) ‘The Ontological Argument and the Devil’, Philosophical...

infinite regress argument is an argument against a theory based on the fact that this theory leads to an infinite regress. For such an argument to be successful...

The Chinese room argument holds that a computer executing a program cannot have a mind, understanding, or consciousness, regardless of how intelligently...

Unger, who uses this idea as an argument for skepticism. A distinction similar to the one between knowledge-that and knowledge-how was already discussed in...

teleological argument (from τέλος, telos, 'end, aim, goal') also known as physico-theological argument, argument from design, or intelligent design argument, is...

being—posited, for instance, in his opus Being and Nothingness through his arguments about the 'being-for-others' and the 'for-itself' (i.e., an objective...

as the science develops. Frank Jackson formulated his well-known knowledge argument based upon similar considerations. In this thought experiment, known...

mind. In the latter field he is best known for the "Mary's room" knowledge argument, a thought experiment that is one of the most discussed challenges...

focuses on the epistemic role of arguments. It is based on the idea that arguments aim to increase our knowledge. They achieve this by linking justified...

In the philosophy of religion, a cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of God based upon observational and factual statements concerning...

The wax argument or the sheet of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created in the second of his Meditations on First Philosophy....

Master argument for the classical master argument related to the problem of future contingents. The master argument is George Berkeley's argument that mind-independent...

The doomsday argument (DA), or Carter catastrophe, is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future population of the human species based...