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    Propositional knowledge about one's own current experience is fallible

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument shows that experience-reports derive meaning from public criteria, not incorrigible private ostension.
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    • 2.Any claim that inherits meaning from public criteria is subject to the same misapplication conditions that make all rule-following potentially erroneous.
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    • 3.Therefore, even first-person present-tense experience reports can be false when the governing public criteria are misapplied.
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    • 1.Neuroscientific evidence, as synthesized by Eric Schwitzgebel, shows systematic discrepancies between subjects' introspective reports and their actual cognitive-perceptual states.
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    • 2.If introspection were infallible, no such systematic discrepancy between report and underlying state could arise, yet such discrepancies are empirically well-documented.
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    • 3.Fallibility of the introspective mechanism entails fallibility of the propositional knowledge that mechanism is meant to ground.
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    • 1.To have propositional knowledge about what one is currently experiencing, one must classify that experience together with other things of the same type
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    • 2.Classifying experiences requires the exercise of capacities that are inherently fallible
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    • 3.One may not have had enough experiences of similar things to classify a current experience securely
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    The second component is undermined because there is no type of judgment, and no type of subject matter, with respect to which error is impossible ((3) above). In order to have propositional knowledge even about what I am experiencing right now, I must classify it together with other things of the same type. And that requires the exercise of capacities that are inherently fallible: I may not have had enough experiences of things of the same sort to classify this one securely; I may not have att
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    One may not have attended to one's current experience with sufficient care
    One may not have had enough experiences of similar things to classify a current ...
    Therefore, even first-person present-tense experience reports can be false when ...
    To have propositional knowledge about what one is currently experiencing, one mu...
    Wittgenstein's private language argument shows that experience-reports derive me...
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