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    A judgment about one's body posture made on the basis of ... — Carmelics
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    A judgment about one's body posture made on the basis of visual perception alone is not immune to error through misidentification.

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    • 1.Visual perception does not provide privileged access restricted to one's own body.
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    • 2.When judging that one's own legs are crossed based solely on seeing legs, one can confuse one's own legs with the legs of a person seated nearby.
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    • 1.Visual perception of one's own body is typically accompanied by proprioceptive and kinesthetic data that jointly constitute the perceptual basis for bodily judgments.
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    • 2.When judgment rests on this multimodal perceptual complex rather than vision alone, the identification component is secured by non-visual channels immune to misidentification.
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    • 3.The claim conflates an artificial isolation of vision with actual embodied perceptual experience, making the error scenario a philosophical stipulation rather than a genuine perceptual case.
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    • 1.On Evans's account, immunity to error through misidentification applies when the information-link grounding the judgment is necessarily self-referential, not when the modality is proprioceptive per se.
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    • 2.Visual self-perception in skilled agents involves a body schema that functionally individuates one's own limbs within the visual field, as Merleau-Ponty and subsequent empirical work on peripersonal space demonstrate.
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    • 3.If body-schema integration makes visual pickup of one's own limbs self-referential in the relevant sense, visual bodily judgments may inherit immunity to misidentification without requiring proprioception exclusively.
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    Despite their differences, all bodily experiences seem to display the same epistemological signature: they ground the immunity to error through misidentification relative to the first-person of bodily self-ascriptions. Self-ascription of a property is said to be immune to error if and only if one cannot rationally doubt who instantiates the property when one has gained information about the property in the appropriate way (although one can be mistaken about the property that one ascribes to ones
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