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    The claim conflates two distinct components: identifying ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A thought about one's mental state is not immune to error through misidentification when it is grounded in testimony rather than introspection.

    The claim conflates two distinct components: identifying the subject of the mental state and identifying the mental state itself, which IEM theorists treat separately.

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    • 1.IEM theorists distinguish between the content of experience and the object it represents, which are logically independent categories.
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    • 2.Identifying what I'm experiencing (fear) differs from identifying what triggers it (the bear), requiring separate analytical frameworks.
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    • 3.Conflating these components obscures how we can be wrong about the object while remaining certain about the phenomenal character itself.
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    • 1.The subject of a mental state is partly constituted by its intentional content, so cleanly separating them may be artificial.
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    • 2.In practice, identifying the mental state often requires identifying its object; the distinction may not track genuine cognitive independence.
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    • 3.IEM's separation assumes transparency about phenomenology that empirical evidence on introspection suggests we may lack.
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