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    A self-ascription is immune to error through misidentific... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Bodily self-ascriptions grounded in body senses (proprioception, interoception) are immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person.

    A self-ascription is immune to error through misidentification when the subject cannot rationally doubt who instantiates the property when information is gained in the appropriate way.

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    Immune to error through misidentification(describes a special feature of self-ascriptions)
    A situation where you can't be wrong about who you're talking about when you describe your own experience—like when you feel pain, you definitely know it's YOUR pain, not someone else's.
    Instantiates (in philosophy)(refers to something actually having or possessing a property)
    To have or display a particular property or quality—for example, a red apple instantiates the property of being red.

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    Rationally doubt(describes the kind of doubt being ruled out)
    To have a logical, reasonable reason to question whether something is true, based on evidence or reasoning rather than just guessing.
    self-ascription(Used in the context of how one develops a sense of being a unified conscious subject)
    The act of attributing experiences to oneself as their subject

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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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