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    Privileged access to the existence of a thought-type is l... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Warfield's anti-skeptical argument commits him to content compatibilism

    Privileged access to the existence of a thought-type is logically independent of access to the environmental conditions constituting its content.

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    • 1.Introspective certainty about mental states requires no empirical investigation of external world conditions.
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    • 2.A subject can know they are thinking without knowing what their thoughts are about or represent.
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    • 3.Content-determination depends on historical and relational facts external to consciousness; privileged access does not.
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    • 1.Understanding what type of thought one has requires grasping its conceptual content, which presupposes environmental knowledge.
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    • 2.Privileged access to thoughts' existence necessarily includes partial access to their content-constituting conditions.
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    • 3.Isolating existence-access from content-access creates a false distinction; thought-types are inherently content-individuated.
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