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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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