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    P.F. Strawson argues in 'Individuals' that ascribing psyc... — Carmelics
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    P.F. Strawson argues in 'Individuals' that ascribing psychological predicates to oneself is only possible within a framework that applies them to others.

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    • 1.Self-ascription of pain requires criteria for correct application; criteria emerge only through public language-use with others.
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    • 2.Without observing psychological states in others, we lack the conceptual framework to identify them in ourselves.
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    • 3.Privacy alone cannot establish meaning; psychological concepts gain content through inter-subjective practice and verification.
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    • 1.We can directly access our own mental states in ways unavailable to others, providing immediate grounds for self-ascription.
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    • 2.Children apply psychological predicates to themselves before developing robust other-ascriptions, contradicting Strawson's requirement.
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    • 3.Even if language is social, the phenomenological content of self-knowledge may not depend on others' conceptual frameworks.
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