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Incorrigibility, philosophy of mind: expression for the special status of certainty that our statements about our own subjective states have. This special status is disputed by some authors. See also Privileged access, Private language, Mental states, Subjectivity, Other minds.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Christopher Peacocke on Incorrigibility - Dictionary of Arguments

I 140
Certainty/Peacocke/(s): demonstrative way of givenness: guarantees that the object has properties that are determined by the perception (not that he has certain properties for sure). - In any case that these properties do not depend on other beliefs.
>Certainty
, >Properties, >Observation, >Way of givenness,
>Pointing, cf. >Ostensive definition.
I 140 f
Infallibility/incorrigibility/immunity to error/perception: visual condition: E.g. "This man is bald": infallible in reference of "this man".
>Reference, >Appearance, cf. >Appearance/Sellars,
Peacocke: this is no identification, not of identity with something dependent, which is just not given - "There is (in this perception situation) no one, so he would be bald, but not this man" presented by the perception at this location. - It cannot be that the way of givenness refers to "this box" while this box is not the thing which is cubical.
>Reference.
Hallucination: also in this case the thought "Dummett amuses himself" is a thought about Dummett!
>Hallucination.
I 175
Immunity/infallibility/tradition/Evans: the judgement, to be the judgment of a specific content, can be constituted that this judgement responds to this condition.
>Judgments.
I/Evans: The reference may fail.
>I, Ego, Self, >Self-identification, >Self-reference, cf. >Quasi-indicator.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Peacocke I
Chr. R. Peacocke
Sense and Content Oxford 1983

Peacocke II
Christopher Peacocke
"Truth Definitions and Actual Languges"
In
Truth and Meaning, G. Evans/J. McDowell, Oxford 1976


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