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    It is not the case that The memory argument against externalism fails because premise (a) is false

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    • 1.Oscar does not forget in the strict neurological sense, since no neurological impairment has occurred
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    • 2.Oscar nonetheless loses memory content due to the slow switch scenario
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    • 3.Knowledge can be lost by routes other than forgetting
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    • 1.On reliabilist accounts (Goldman 1986), knowledge requires a reliable causal connection between belief and fact, not merely preserved neural states.
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    • 2.When the slow-switch alters the environmental fact that constitutes the content, the causal chain is severed regardless of neurological continuity.
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    • 3.Therefore, content-loss in slow-switch cases is constitutively a form of knowledge loss, making premise (a)'s restriction to forgetting a category error.
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    • 1.Burge's own anti-individualism entails that mental content is partly individuated by environmental and social context, not by intrinsic brain states.
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    • 2.If content is environmentally constituted, then environmental change just is a change in what is known, collapsing the distinction between forgetting and content-shift.
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    • 3.Premise (a) presupposes an internalist conception of memory content that externalists are already committed to rejecting on independent grounds.
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