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    It is not the case that Belief in other minds can be justified by extrapolating from one's own case via correlation between mental states and behaviour

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    • 1.Inductive inference from a single case (oneself) to all other minds violates the logical requirement of a sufficiently large and varied sample.
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    • 2.The argument assumes the very regularity it seeks to establish: that mental-behavioural correlations in one being generalize across numerically distinct beings.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument establishes that mental state concepts are themselves constituted by public, behavioural criteria, making introspective 'knowledge of one's own case' already theory-laden.
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    • 2.If the basis of the analogy (privileged first-person access to pure mental states) is incoherent, the analogical inference collapses before it can begin.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.I know that certain of my mental states are correlated with certain pieces of behaviour
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    • 2.Others exhibit similar behaviour to my own
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