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    Supports→Skepticism about other minds is false

    I demonstrably employ coherent mental concepts, so the precondition of other minds must be satisfied.

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    • 1.Coherent mental concepts require learned social frameworks that could only arise through interaction with other minds.
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    • 2.The reliability of my reasoning about abstract concepts suggests their grounding in shared intersubjective reality, not solipsism.
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    • 3.Self-awareness itself requires a distinctions between self and other, logically presupposing the conceptual possibility of other minds.
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    • 1.Coherent concepts could be internally generated or evolutionarily determined; they don't logically require other currently-existing minds.
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    • 2.My demonstrable concept-use establishes my mind's existence, but provides no empirical evidence distinguishing simulated from real others.
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    • 3.Inferring other minds from my own cognition commits the analogical argument fallacy: one case is insufficient for inductive generalization.
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