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    It is not the case that McKinsey's paradox shows that combining a priori self-knowledge with content externalism entails a priori knowledge of contingent environmental facts.

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    • 1.A priori knowledge of content can be distinguished from a priori knowledge of environmental conditions determining it.
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    • 2.We might access content through introspection while remaining ignorant of the external facts constituting it.
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    • 3.The paradox equivocates between knowing what our thoughts are and knowing what makes them possible.
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    • 1.Content externalism entails that mental content is partly constituted by external environmental facts.
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    • 2.A priori self-knowledge requires knowing one's own mental contents without empirical investigation.
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    • 3.If mental content depends on external facts and we know our content a priori, we must know those external facts a priori.
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