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    It is not the case that Propositional knowledge about one's own current experience is fallible

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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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    • 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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