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    When a judgment such as 'my legs are crossed' is grounded... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Proprioceptive experiences suffice to justify bodily self-ascriptions without requiring an intermediary process of self-identification.

    When a judgment such as 'my legs are crossed' is grounded in proprioception, it is not grounded in the judgment 'these legs are crossed' plus the identification 'these legs are mine'.

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    Proprioception(as used in neuroscience and philosophy of perception)
    Your body's sense of where its parts are in space and how they're moving, without you having to look—like knowing where your arm is even with your eyes closed.
    grounded in(whether distinctness or identity is explained by intrinsic features)
    To be explained by or to have its reason or basis in something else—like how a tree being wet is grounded in (explained by) recent rain.
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    A multiple relation of the mind or mental factors to many objects — the constituents of the proposition judged — rather than a single relation to a single propositional object

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    Despite their differences, all bodily experiences seem to display the same epistemological signature: they ground the immunity to error through misidentification relative to the first-person of bodily self-ascriptions. Self-ascription of a property is said to be immune to error if and only if one cannot rationally doubt who instantiates the property when one has gained information about the property in the appropriate way (although one can be mistaken about the property that one ascribes to ones

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