...follows:

According to Michael Tye, the term ``fact'' causes a great deal of confusion because it is used in two different manners. Sometimes it is used in a ``fine-grained'' manner, where the fact that H1#1O is in the glass is considered to be a different fact than that water is in the glass. At other times, it is used in a ``course-grained'' manner, where the fact that H2#2O is in the glass is considered to be identical to the fact that water is in the glass. For the purposes of this paper, I will always use the term ``fact'' in the fine-grained sense.

...follows:

Harman does not explicitly mention premise (4), but it seems to be required should he wish to explicitly address the case of Mary, rather than the case of a person blind from birth.

...Mary.

If epiphenomenalism is true, it might be the case that zombies that are utterly void of phenomenal properties are still not possible. Rather, in a world in which physicalism is true, the people might have some impoverished subset of the phenomenal properties we have. In the discussion that follows I will not explicitly consider this possibility, but I will keep it in the back of my mind to make sure that I will say nothing nothing that cannot be ``fixed up'' to allow for this possibility.

...Argument.

Please recall again that physicalism is true as a given for ZombMary.

Douglas Alan
Fri May 16 17:30:09 EDT 1997