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    It is not the case that Castañeda's work on quasi-indicators shows that first-person and present-time beliefs are irreducibly perspectival and cannot be fully captured by any third-personal propositional content.

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    • 1.Third-person descriptions can include indexical reference frames as objective propositional content, capturing perspectival facts completely.
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    • 2.The felt difference between first-person and third-person accounts reflects epistemic access differences, not irreducible semantic content.
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    • 3.Perspectival beliefs reduce to relations between agents, times, and propositions—analyzable without postulating irreducible quasi-indicators.
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    • 1.Subjective experience has essential indexical content: 'I am in pain now' conveys something third-person descriptions of neural states cannot.
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    • 2.Two observers with identical propositional beliefs about an event have different de se knowledge based on their perspective within it.
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    • 3.Quasi-indicators like 'I' and 'now' refer directly via speaker/time, not via descriptive content, creating irreducible perspectival structure.
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