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    It is not the case that When psychological self-ascription occurs in a fission scenario, the pronoun 'I' fails to uniquely refer, so the absence of misidentification is not immunity but mere referential indeterminacy.

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    • 1.First-person ascriptions can be both immune to error and indeterminate in reference (e.g., vague predicates). These aren't incompatible.
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    • 2.Immunity tracks the special epistemic access of first-person thought, not determinate reference. Indeterminacy doesn't eliminate this access.
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    • 3.Calling it 'mere referential indeterminacy' begs the question—the challenge is to explain why immunity survives indeterminacy, not dismiss it.
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    • 1.In fission cases, 'I' picks out an entity with no determinate identity facts, violating standard referential presuppositions.
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    • 2.Immunity to misidentification requires the referent to be determinate; indeterminacy about which future person is me undermines immunity.
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    • 3.The absence of error in fission doesn't show genuine self-knowledge—it shows the concept 'I' has broken down and becomes truth-valueless.
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