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    Challenges→A thought about one's mental state is not immune to error through misidentification when it is grounded in testimony rather than introspection.

    Immunity to error through misidentification is a structural feature of first-person grammatical position, not solely an epistemic feature of the causal pathway through which the belief was formed.

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    Epistemic feature(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    A characteristic related to knowledge and how we know things—what makes a belief justified or reliable.
    First-person grammatical position(as used in philosophy of language)
    The use of 'I' or 'me' in language—the position of the speaker talking about themselves.
    Structural feature(as what the statement claims configuration-space separation is)
    A fundamental, built-in aspect of how something works—as opposed to something that just happens to occur by chance.
    causal pathway(in action theory)
    The chain of events that directly connects a person's beliefs and desires to their actual behavior—basically the cause-and-effect route from thought to action.
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    (Used by Perrin to distinguish episodic future thought (immune) from episodic memory (not immune))
    A property of a mental state whereby one cannot be mistaken about the identity of the subject of the experience represented in that state

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