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    It is not the case that Making sense of other minds must be understood as a culturally mediated activity.

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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenological account of intersubjectivity grounds other-mind understanding in pre-cultural bodily co-presence and analogical apperception.
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    • 2.If cross-cultural empathy is possible at all—as empirical interaction demonstrates—some mechanism must operate beneath cultural mediation.
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    • 3.Cultural mediation explains variation in folk-psychological content but cannot explain the prior capacity to recognize others as minded beings at all.
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    • 1.Simulation theory (Gordon, Goldman) holds that mindreading exploits first-person cognitive machinery, which is neurobiologically grounded prior to cultural acquisition.
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    • 2.The argument from P1-P3 conflates the conditions for accurate interpretation of culturally specific beliefs with the conditions for other-mind understanding as such.
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    • 1.Individual agents are always socially and culturally embedded.
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    • 2.Understanding another agent presupposes understanding the cultural context in which that agent functions.
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    • 3.Empathy theorists do not sufficiently account for how agents are embedded in a broader social environment when they conceive of understanding as a direct meeting of minds.
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