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    It is not the case that We must have some knowledge of our own attitudes (beliefs, desires, commitments, suppositions).

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    • 1.Introspective reports systematically misrepresent underlying mental states, as Nisbett & Wilson's 1977 experiments on verbal reports demonstrate.
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    • 2.Competent critical reasoning requires only functional access to attitudes, not accurate knowledge of their content or nature.
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    • 3.One can evaluate and revise beliefs under systematically false descriptions of those beliefs, as confabulation research in cognitive science confirms.
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    • 1.Freudian and post-Freudian psychology establishes that agents regularly act from motivational states they sincerely and systematically disavow.
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    • 2.If unconscious desires and commitments causally drive behavior and reasoning, the transcendental argument from critical reasoning does not entail conscious self-knowledge of those attitudes.
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    • 1.To be capable of critical reasoning, one must be able to recognize one's own attitudes, knowledgeably evaluating, identifying, and reviewing one's beliefs, desires, commitments, and suppositions as the states they are.
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    • 2.We are capable of critical reasoning (assumed for the sake of transcendental argument).
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