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    Supports→Knowledge that a particular arm that is moving is one's own arm is not immune to error through misidentification.

    When identification is required, misidentification is possible (e.g., misidentifying another's arm as one's own in a mirror).

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    Shoemaker (1968), for example, argues that self-knowledge of certain psychological facts such as “I am waving my arm” or “I see a canary”, when arrived at “in the ordinary way (without the aid of mirrors, etc.)”, is immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person pronoun (see also Campbell 1999; Pryor 1999; Bar-On 2004; Hamilton 2008). That is, although one may be wrong about waving one’s arm (perhaps the nerves to your arm were recently severed unbeknownst to you) or abou

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