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    It is not the case that The argument that imagination is not a safe guide to possibility cannot apply in the mind-body case.

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    • 1.In cases involving a posteriori necessities (such as identity discoveries), we are mistaken about essences because we identify entities only by their superficial, observable stereotypes.
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    • 2.In the case of our experience of ourselves, we do not identify ourselves merely by superficial stereotypes.
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    • 3.Therefore, the source of error that undermines imagination as a guide to possibility in other cases is absent in the mind-body case.
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