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    It is not the case that A thought about one's mental state is not immune to error through misidentification when it is grounded in testimony rather than introspection.

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    • 1.Shoemaker's immunity to error through misidentification (IEM) applies specifically to the use of 'I' as subject, not to propositional content about mental states.
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    • 2.A testimony-grounded thought like 'I am anxious' can still be IEM regarding self-reference even if the anxiety's character is misreported, since the subject-identification is not in question.
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    • 3.The claim conflates two distinct components: identifying the subject of the mental state and identifying the mental state itself, which IEM theorists treat separately.
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    • 1.Burge's work on self-knowledge establishes that authoritative first-person judgments are not exclusively grounded in introspective access but in the constitutive act of self-attribution itself.
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    • 2.When a person sincerely endorses a testimony-based report—'the analyst says I am anxious and I accept this'—the subsequent self-ascription generates a cogito-like immunity because the thinking subject cannot be someone else.
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    • 3.Immunity to error through misidentification is a structural feature of first-person grammatical position, not solely an epistemic feature of the causal pathway through which the belief was formed.
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    • 1.Testimony-based belief about one's own mental states does not provide privileged first-person access.
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    • 2.A psychoanalyst's report about a patient's anxiety could be based on a misidentification of the patient, meaning the anxiety may belong to a different person.
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