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Thoughts on “the Knowledge Argument” as an objection to the view that all facts are ‘book-learning’ facts
The knowledge argument, more commonly known as “Mary’s Room” thought experiment, can be understood as an objection to the view that all facts are ‘book-learning’ facts: facts the learning of which does not require you to have a certain kind of experience or occupy a certain position in the world. I comment on this characterisation by Tim Crane.