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    It is not the case that Self-knowledge of certain psychological facts, when arrived at in the ordinary way without mirrors, is immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person pronoun.

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    • 1.Shoemaker's immunity thesis presupposes a unified, bounded subject, but Parfitian fission cases entail that psychological states may be co-instantiated by two equally valid claimants to 'I'.
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    • 2.When psychological self-ascription occurs in a fission scenario, the pronoun 'I' fails to uniquely refer, so the absence of misidentification is not immunity but mere referential indeterminacy.
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    • 3.A condition that holds only under the assumption of personal identity cannot itself ground the immunity that personal identity theorists invoke it to explain, without circularity.
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    • 1.Split-brain and depersonalization cases show subjects sincerely doubting whether a reported mental state belongs to 'me' or an alien presence within.
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    • 2.If misidentification errors are empirically possible in psychological self-ascription, immunity cannot be constitutively guaranteed by the absence of perceptual identification.
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    • 1.When one knows psychological facts like 'I am waving my arm' or 'I see a canary' in the ordinary way, there is no need for identification of the subject in the first place.
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    • 2.Where there is no need for identification, there is no opportunity for misidentification.
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    • 3.Error through misidentification requires that one mistakenly identify another person as oneself.
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