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... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > learning and perception > cognitive processes > perception (psychology) > philosophical approaches > mary the color scientist
... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > perception (psychology) > philosophical approaches > mary the color scientist
... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > learning and perception > cognitive processes > perception (psychology) > visual perception > mary the color scientist
... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > perception (psychology) > visual perception > mary the color scientist

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  • Mary the color scientist is a version of the knowledge argument, a line of reasoning that is widely regarded as a serious challenge to physicalism (also known as materialism), the popular philosophical theory that the world is entirely physical. Imagine a time far in the future, when the science of color vision has been completed. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Mary the Color Scientist]

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