A Knowledge Argument Without “Knowledge”

I offer a variation on the Knowledge Argument, the “Resemblance Argument,” which argues that the accuracy conditions for representations of qualia require qualitative resemblance to the mode of presentation, whereas those for representations of physical states do not. The Resemblance Argument resists a number of popular current responses to the Knowledge Argument, including the Ability hypothesis, the Acquaintance hypothesis, and the “New Knowledge of an Old Fact” strategy. Because these responses focus on the concept of knowledge, but the Resemblance Argument makes no claims about knowledge, these responses fail. Some physicalist responses nonetheless survive the Resemblance Argument intact, including Illusionism and the Incomplete Physical Knowledge Strategy.