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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Introspective access remains foundational: even if self-attribution is constitutive, it presupposes prior introspective awareness of mental states to attribute.
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    • 2.The constitutive act theory risks circularity: explaining authority through the same judgment whose authority is questioned doesn't resolve the problem.
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    • 3.Empirical evidence supports introspective grounding: false self-attributions and confabulations show that constitutive acts alone don't guarantee authoritative knowledge.
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    • 1.Self-attribution is constitutive: when I judge 'I believe X,' the judgment itself partly constitutes what I believe, not merely reports pre-existing mental content.
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    • 2.Introspection alone cannot fully explain authority: a subject can be authoritative about their thoughts even when introspective access is limited or indirect.
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    • 3.Self-knowledge requires normative commitment: first-person authority emerges from rational self-governance and constitutive norms of thought, not passive observation.
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