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    It is not the case that Keeping a secret necessarily involves auto-affection (speaking to oneself).

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    • 1.Ryle's dispositional account shows that possessing knowledge (including secrets) requires no occurrent mental act of self-address.
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    • 2.A secret can be kept through behavioral dispositions and practical competencies that never involve explicit inner monologue.
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    • 3.If secret-keeping is dispositional rather than episodic, the auto-affective 'telling oneself' is neither necessary nor constitutive.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument demonstrates that meaning in any supposed 'inner speech' is parasitic on public linguistic practice, not self-sufficient auto-affection.
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    • 2.If inner self-address derives its semantic content from external, communal language use, then hearing-oneself-speak cannot be the foundational structure Derrida claims it is.
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    • 1.To possess a secret really, one must tell it to oneself.
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    • 2.Telling the secret to oneself is an instance of the structure of hearing-oneself-speak.
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    • 3.This internal self-address constitutes auto-affection.
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