the idea that there are no such qualities; or, in other words, there are no qualia. This is closely related to an interpretation that transparency simply contradicts the existence of qualia. According to this line of argument, if qualia exist then they are necessarily accessible to introspection. But transparency states that there are no qualia accessible to introspection. The argument concludes that qualia cannot possibly exist.

Another way of interpreting the argument is as an argument that experience cannot be fundamentally misleading.