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    It is not the case that Perceptual experiences are not intersubjectively accessible in the same way their objects are; each subject has their own distinct perceptual experience.

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    • 1.Husserl's account of intersubjectivity via empathy (Einfühlung) shows that perceptual experience has a constitutively shared intentional structure, not merely shared objects.
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    • 2.If the very sense of perceiving a public object requires constituting it as perceivable by others, then perceptual experience is intersubjectively structured from within.
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    • 3.The alleged privacy of experience and the intersubjective accessibility of objects cannot be cleanly separated at the level of intentional constitution.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument establishes that the very conceptual content of perceptual reports presupposes shared public criteria, undermining strong experiential privacy.
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    • 2.If perceptual experiences are individuated by their conceptual content, and that content is irreducibly public, then experiences are not as epistemically asymmetrical as the claim asserts.
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    • 1.Although two subjects can perceive a numerically identical object, each has their own distinct perceptual experience of it.
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    • 2.Just as two subjects cannot share each other's pain, they cannot literally share perceptual experiences.
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    • 3.Perceptual experiences are epistemically asymmetrical between subjects.
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