Burge's constitutive self-knowledge thesis holds that first-person thought ascriptions are authoritative precisely because thinking 'I think p' constitutes the very thought p it purports to track.
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A theory claiming that when you think about your own thoughts, the act of thinking about them actually creates or makes real the very thoughts you're thinking about—they don't exist separately waiting for you to notice them.
first-person thought ascriptions(the subject of the authority being discussed)
Statements where you describe your own thoughts using 'I,' like when you say 'I believe it will rain' or 'I think pizza is delicious.'
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.