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    It is not the case that Tyler Burge's anti-individualism entails that singular perceptual demonstratives derive their referential force from the subject's embeddedness in a causal-perceptual environment.

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    • 1.Subjects can demonstratively refer to hallucinated or misperceived objects lacking the requisite causal-perceptual environment.
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    • 2.Burge's view struggles to explain how demonstrative reference could originate or be learned without prior successful reference.
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    • 3.Internal mental discrimination may suffice for reference-fixing independent of actual environmental embeddedness.
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    • 1.Burge's externalism correctly explains how subjects can refer to distal objects they haven't introspectively individuated.
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    • 2.Perceptual demonstratives like 'that' depend on causal chains linking subject to environment, not just internal mental content.
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    • 3.Twin Earth cases show identical internal states can have different referents based on external causal history.
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