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    If misidentification errors are empirically possible in p... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Self-knowledge of certain psychological facts, when arrived at in the ordinary way without mirrors, is immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person pronoun.

    If misidentification errors are empirically possible in psychological self-ascription, immunity cannot be constitutively guaranteed by the absence of perceptual identification.

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    • 1.Empirical studies show false memory and confabulation occur even in introspection, demonstrating misidentification is genuinely possible.
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    • 2.If immunity were constitutive, misidentification would be logically impossible, not merely empirically rare. Yet evidence shows it happens.
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    • 3.Absence of perceptual identification cannot guarantee immunity if non-perceptual mechanisms (memory, inference) remain fallible sources of error.
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    • 1.Misidentification in self-ascription may reflect failures in *reporting* rather than genuine error in the mental state itself being accessed.
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    • 2.Empirical possibility of error doesn't entail that immunity lacks constitutive status; it may be constitutive yet epistemically defeasible.
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    • 3.The claim conflates two distinct issues: whether identification occurs perceptually versus whether first-person access has special authority.
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