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    It is not the case that The fugitive can surprise the pursuer only if it is possible for the fugitive to surprise himself.

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    • 1.Asymmetric information about one's own deliberative process is epistemically possible: an agent can act on reasons opaque to external observers.
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    • 2.The pursuer's duplication of reasoning requires access to the fugitive's internal weighting of considerations, which is not guaranteed by logical parity alone.
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    • 3.Ryle's distinction between knowing-how and knowing-that implies that the fugitive's procedural knowledge of his own choice-making need not be propositionally replicable by the pursuer.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Frankfurt's compatibilist account establishes that an agent can be the author of a choice even when that choice is causally determined by prior states the agent reflectively endorses.
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    • 2.If the fugitive's choice is determined by his own endorsed deliberative character rather than by reasoning transparent to the pursuer, surprise is compatible with self-knowledge without requiring self-ignorance.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Both the fugitive and pursuer have symmetric logical reasoning power.
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    • 2.Any reasoning process the fugitive uses to select a bridge can be duplicated by the pursuer.
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    • 3.Genuine unpredictability to the pursuer requires that the fugitive's own choice not be determined by his reasoning alone.
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