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    Self-verifying judgments satisfy the truth-tracking condition (TC) and therefore cannot be used to argue against self-knowledge via TC

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    • 1.Burge's constitutive self-knowledge thesis holds that first-person thought ascriptions are authoritative precisely because thinking 'I think p' constitutes the very thought p it purports to track.
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    • 2.If the self-ascription constitutes rather than merely represents the thought, no gap exists between ascription and truth-maker across which TC-failure could arise.
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    • 3.Davidson's anomalous monism similarly entails that mental content is individuated holistically, making self-referential thought ascriptions immune to the divergence TC requires for epistemic failure.
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    • 1.Shoemaker's no-reference-failure principle establishes that first-person mental ascriptions cannot misidentify their subject, removing one dimension along which TC-relevant counterfactuals could generate false belief.
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    • 2.If the subject of a self-verifying judgment cannot be mistaken, then the only remaining axis of potential falsehood—content—is closed off by the self-verifying mechanism itself, exhausting all routes to TC-failure.
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    • 1.In a counterfactual where a subject has twin water thoughts instead of water thoughts, the subject cannot believe they have water thoughts
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    • 2.A self-attribution expressed as 'I am thinking that water is wet' would inevitably attribute a twin water thought instead in such a counterfactual
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    • 3.Therefore the self-attribution tracks the truth perfectly in the counterfactual circumstances
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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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    According to (TC), S fails to know since her justification would not divert her judgment, in a relevant scenario where the judgment is false. However, if this is the principle operative in the arguments, it seems they can be resisted (Falvey & Owens 1994). Plausibly, we do not satisfy (TC) when it comes to self-verifying judgments (see section 3.1). For if we consider a counterfactual where I have twin water thoughts in lieu of water thoughts, I cannot believe I have water thoughts. A self
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    In a counterfactual where a subject has twin water thoughts instead of water tho...
    Self-verifying judgments meet this requirement because the content of the judgme...
    Shoemaker's no-reference-failure principle establishes that first-person mental ...
    TC requires only that justification not divert judgment in relevant scenarios wh...
    Therefore the self-attribution tracks the truth perfectly in the counterfactual ...
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