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    If the subject of a self-verifying judgment cannot be mis... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Self-verifying judgments satisfy the truth-tracking condition (TC) and therefore cannot be used to argue against self-knowledge via TC

    If the subject of a self-verifying judgment cannot be mistaken, then the only remaining axis of potential falsehood—content—is closed off by the self-verifying mechanism itself, exhausting all routes to TC-failure.

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    Key Terms

    TC-failure(epistemology and philosophy of language)
    A failure of truth-conditions—meaning a situation where a statement doesn't successfully establish whether something is true or false.
    axis of potential falsehood(logic and epistemology)
    A way or direction in which a statement could possibly be wrong or false.
    content(Possible worlds semantics)
    The proposition expressed by a sentence; in possible worlds semantics, content is identified with an intension.
    mechanism(Nineteenth-century scientific worldview that challenged interactionist dualism)
    The scientific and philosophical view that the physical world is causally closed and that all events are explicable solely in terms of physical laws
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    (First-person authority over thought content)
    A judgment whose truth is guaranteed by the act of making it, such that the judgment cannot be false if sincerely made
    subject(Logical/grammatical ontology in Eisagoge)
    Either a sound signifying a meaning or a meaning signified by a certain sound

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