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    It is not the case that Knowing personhood in others would thus require intersubjective criteria grounded in practice and behavior, not empathetic projection from inner experience.

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    • 1.Behavior alone cannot distinguish genuine personhood from sophisticated mimicry or conditioned responses without inner criteria.
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    • 2.Some persons (infants, locked-in patients) lack demonstrable intersubjective behavioral capacities yet retain personhood intuitively.
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    • 3.Rejecting empathetic insight abandons our primary reliable access to consciousness—our own first-person experience as reference point.
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    • 1.Inner experiences are epistemically private; only observable behavior and practice provide intersubjective verification criteria.
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    • 2.Empathetic projection risks anthropomorphizing non-persons and denying personhood to those unlike us in expression.
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    • 3.Social institutions (language, law, reciprocal obligation) depend on behavioral criteria, not subjective mental states.
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