To say that the experience of seeing a green apple should itself be green is what Smart calls:
A) an irreducible law.
B) the phenomenological fallacy.
C) billiard-ball physics.
D) the mind-body problem.
E) the cosmological fallacy.

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This is because the statement represents the phenomenological fallacy, which is the mistaken belief that subjective experience can be reduced to objective, scientific descriptions. Smart argues that the subjective experience of seeing the color green cannot be reduced to a physical-chemical description of light waves and neural activity, and therefore, cannot be considered itself as green.

To Say That the Experience of Seeing a Green Apple