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    It is not the case that Interpreting animal behavior requires perceiving one's own mentality at developmental levels below reflective self-consciousness

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    • 1.Behavioral interpretation of animals is adequately grounded in third-person functional analysis without requiring introspective access to sub-reflective states.
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    • 2.Dennett's intentional stance demonstrates that attributing mentality to animals requires only predictive modeling of behavior, not privileged first-person developmental access.
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    • 3.Introspective reports about sub-reflective mental states are epistemically unreliable, making them a poor foundation for comparative cognitive science.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument entails that sub-reflective mental states lack the determinate content needed to ground intersubjective interpretive frameworks.
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    • 2.If pre-reflective experience cannot be coherently articulated or shared, appealing to it as an interpretive tool for animal cognition is methodologically incoherent.
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    • 1.Understanding animal minds demands introspective access to sub-reflective levels of one's own mental development
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    • 2.Animal behavior cannot be interpreted solely from the standpoint of top-level reflective self-consciousness
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