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    If first-person rational norms suffice to triangulate mea... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→First-person knowledge alone is insufficient for interpreting others' behavior.

    If first-person rational norms suffice to triangulate meaning across speakers, first-person knowledge is not merely insufficient but foundational.

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    • 1.Meaning requires intentional content, which originates in individual mental states before any interpersonal coordination occurs.
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    • 2.Rational norms (consistency, coherence) are individually applied before speakers can successfully coordinate on shared reference.
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    • 3.Any account of how speakers triangulate meaning must presuppose each speaker already grasps their own conceptual states.
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    • 1.Meaning is constitutively social; first-person rational norms alone cannot determine reference without external world constraints.
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    • 2.Triangulation requires causal interaction with shared objects, not just individual rationality—a third-person structural requirement.
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    • 3.First-person knowledge depends on successfully tracking others' rational norms; it cannot be foundational if it presupposes them.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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