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    The person's subjectivity and lived experience are knowab... — Carmelics
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    The person's subjectivity and lived experience are knowable, though not through standard objective methods

    Consciousness & MindPersonal Identity
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    • 1.The irreducibility of personhood does not entail that the person's subjectivity is unknowable
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    • 2.A method that merely reveals and discloses essence is available for coming to know subjective experience
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    • 1.Thomas Nagel's 'what it is like' argument establishes that the qualitative character of subjective experience is constitutively inaccessible from any third-person or intersubjective standpoint.
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    • 2.Husserl's phenomenological method of eidetic reduction still operates through intersubjective structures of intentionality, making it a third-personal method in disguise.
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    • 3.Therefore, the 'method of disclosure' invoked in P2 cannot escape the epistemic barrier Nagel identifies without collapsing back into objective description.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument demonstrates that genuinely private subjective states cannot be the basis of any communicable or verifiable knowledge.
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    • 2.If subjective experience cannot be linguistically shared or publicly verified, no method—phenomenological or otherwise—can yield knowledge of it in any epistemically robust sense.
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    This conscious self-presence is the interiority of the human person, and it is so central to the meaning of the concept of person that one can say that personality signifies interiority to self. Because of the person’s subjectivity, he is not only acted upon and moved by external forces, but also acts from within, from the core of his own subjectivity. Since he is the author of his actions, he possesses an identity of his own making, which cannot be reduced to objective analysis and thus resists
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