If unconscious desires and commitments causally drive behavior and reasoning, the transcendental argument from critical reasoning does not entail conscious self-knowledge of those attitudes.
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Mental states like beliefs, desires, hopes, and fears—basically any way of thinking about or feeling toward something.
critical reasoning(Burge's transcendental argument for self-knowledge)
The capacity to recognize one's own attitudes, knowledgeably evaluating, identifying, and reviewing one's beliefs, desires, commitments, and suppositions, where these mental states are known to be the states they are.
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.
transcendental argument(Kant's method for establishing a priori knowledge of the categories)
An argument that proceeds by identifying the necessary preconditions for the possibility of experience