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    Challenges→Self-knowledge of certain psychological facts, when arrived at in the ordinary way without mirrors, is immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person pronoun.

    A condition that holds only under the assumption of personal identity cannot itself ground the immunity that personal identity theorists invoke it to explain, without circularity.

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    • 1.Grounding relations must be non-circular: if X grounds Y, then Y cannot be part of what explains X's existence or justification.
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    • 2.Personal identity theorists use continuity conditions to ground immunity to error about the self, yet these conditions presuppose identity itself.
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    • 3.A property cannot explain why it holds unless that explanation is independent of assuming the property already holds.
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    • 1.Grounding can be hyperintensional: two logically equivalent truths may have different grounds, allowing identity assumptions at different explanatory levels.
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    • 2.Presupposing personal identity in stating conditions need not make those conditions circular if they are independently testable or empirically discoverable.
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    • 3.Many foundational concepts (e.g., logical laws) are self-justifying without circularity; identity may be similarly foundational, not derivative.
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