Question

This thought experiment was inspired by the doctor William Cheselden’s account of treating Daniel Dolins. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this thought experiment discussed in the second edition of Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding. This thought experiment asks whether a blind man who has learned the feel of a sphere and a cube would be able to distinguish them if his sight was restored.
ANSWER: Molyneux’s problem
[10e] Frank Jackson’s “knowledge argument” for the existence of qualia imagines this super-scientist who grows up in a black-and-white room before being shown color TV.
ANSWER: Mary [accept Mary’s room]
[10m] G. E. Moore’s Principia Ethica compares this fallacy to defining the color yellow in terms of certain “light- vibrations” rather than the quale of yellowness. Defining goodness in terms of another property commits this fallacy.
ANSWER: naturalistic fallacy
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Bringing an Occam's Razor and a Hume's Guillotine to a Newton's Flaming Laser Sword fightThe Questions for the Historical Je*BUZZ* by AlBonus Schweitzer10101030
Kirtland SignatureEzrielev et al.10101030
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Rump Fest? I Thought They Closed That Place DownJesus wept, for He had no more worlds to conquer0101020
The Philosophy of FurnitureJosiah Royce da 5'90101020
The Rumbleless Rumble in Meinong's JungleDoes a dawg have Buddha-nature?10101030

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