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    It is not the case that Wittgenstein's private language argument entails that sub-reflective mental states lack the determinate content needed to ground intersubjective interpretive frameworks.

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    • 1.Sub-reflective states like pain have determinate phenomenal properties independent of interpretive frameworks or linguistic practices.
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    • 2.The argument equivocates between content-determinacy and communicability; private content can be determinate without being sharable.
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    • 3.Non-linguistic organisms possess determinate mental states, showing content doesn't require public interpretive frameworks to exist.
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    • 1.Private language requires criteria for correct use independent of community practice, but sub-reflective states lack accessible standards.
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    • 2.Determinate content requires causal-historical chains anchored in public practices; pre-reflective states lack this social grounding.
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    • 3.Wittgenstein's beetle-in-the-box shows that private ostensive definition cannot ground shared meaning, undermining sub-reflective content.
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