Okay, I’ll try to clarify what I mean. If Mary did not exist, the table could still be messy; that’s a fact about the table. But with no one to observe it, the messiness wouldn’t be bad. The badness of the table being messy is a fact about how Mary perceives messiness...which is why the same table, with the same messiness, could be “not-bad” through someone else’s eyes, i.e. Albert. Obviously it’s a fact about the table in that the table has to exist, and be messy, in order for Mary to think it’s bad, but you can’t describe it by only describing the table...you have to describe Mary’s brain too.
Is there any way I can make this clearer in the article?
Okay, I’ll try to clarify what I mean. If Mary did not exist, the table could still be messy; that’s a fact about the table. But with no one to observe it, the messiness wouldn’t be bad. The badness of the table being messy is a fact about how Mary perceives messiness...which is why the same table, with the same messiness, could be “not-bad” through someone else’s eyes, i.e. Albert. Obviously it’s a fact about the table in that the table has to exist, and be messy, in order for Mary to think it’s bad, but you can’t describe it by only describing the table...you have to describe Mary’s brain too.
Is there any way I can make this clearer in the article?