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    Humans can accurately self-ascribe beliefs, desires, and intentions

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    • 1.When prompted to reflect on what one believes, desires, or intends, one reflects on the outward phenomena in question and makes up one's mind about what to believe, desire, or do
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    • 2.This process opens or re-opens the matter and arrives at a resolution rather than detecting a pre-existing state
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    • 3.Humans normally do believe, desire, and intend what they resolve to believe, desire, and do
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    • 1.Freudian and neo-Freudian psychology establishes that unconscious motivations causally drive behavior while remaining inaccessible to conscious self-scrutiny.
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    • 2.The supporting argument's resolution model presupposes that conscious deliberation exhausts the relevant mental states, ignoring sub-personal processes that constitute the actual belief or desire.
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    • 3.An accurate self-ascription must track the state that genuinely explains behavior, not merely a consciously endorsed surrogate that coexists with a divergent unconscious determinant.
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    • 1.Empirical studies (Nisbett & Wilson 1977) demonstrate that subjects confabulate reasons for choices, citing causes that experimental manipulation shows are fictional.
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    • 2.If introspective reports systematically diverge from the actual causal determinants of behavior, self-ascription of beliefs and desires tracks narrative construction, not mental reality.
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    Commissive accounts of self-knowledge also involve self-shaping, but not a form of self-shaping in which the introspective judgment brings into existence an ontologically distinct target state, but rather a kind of self-shaping involving a self-fulfillment or containment component similar to that discussed in Section 2.3.1 above. Moran (2001), for example, argues that normally when we are prompted to think about what we believe, desire, or intend (and he limits his account primarily to these thr
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