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    It is not the case that Humans can accurately self-ascribe beliefs, desires, and intentions

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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