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    • 1.Immediate judgments exist
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    • 2.Immediate judgments, by their nature, cannot be false
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    • 1.Descartes' cogito aside, even introspective judgments about one's own mental states are subject to systematic misreporting, as Nisbett & Wilson's 1977 empirical work demonstrated.
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    • 2.If a judgment class admits of any false instances, certainty cannot be guaranteed by membership in that class alone, regardless of how the class is defined.
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    • 1.Wilfrid Sellars argued in 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' that all epistemic justification is inferential, making the category of genuinely non-inferential 'immediate' judgment incoherent.
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    • 2.A judgment that cannot in principle be false is not a cognitive achievement but a tautology, and tautologies carry no genuine epistemic content about the world.
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    From the obvious existence of mediated judgments, however, it follows that there must also be immediate judgments (WL III, 125, 138–139). Immediate judgments cannot be false and must therefore be certain (WL III, 212, 229, 263). Certainty has thereby not to be taken in its objective sense in which a proposition \(s\) is certain relative to a set \(\sigma\) of propositions iff the logical probability of \(s\) relative to \(\sigma\) is 1, i.e., iff \(s\) is a logical consequence of \(\sigma\) (WL
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