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    It is not the case that Immediate judgments cannot be false and must therefore be certain

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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