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    It is not the case that Reflective introspection on experience is only possible because the subject is already experientially familiar with that experience via pre-reflective awareness.

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    • 1.Reflection can constitute experience rather than merely re-present it, as Sartre himself acknowledges in impure reflection's distorting role.
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    • 2.If reflection constitutively shapes what it apprehends, the pre-reflective datum it allegedly accesses is not preserved intact but transformed.
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    • 3.A constitutively transformative reflective act cannot be grounded in prior familiarity with the very content it brings into being.
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    • 1.Higher-Order Thought theories (Rosenthal) hold that a mental state becomes conscious precisely when accompanied by a thought about it, requiring no prior pre-reflective awareness.
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    • 2.If a state can first become experientially available through the reflective or higher-order act itself, pre-reflective familiarity is not a necessary precondition for reflective access.
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    • 1.When a subject reflects, she reflects on something with which she is already experientially familiar.
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    • 2.Pre-reflective awareness precedes and grounds any subsequent reflective act.
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