Self-ascription, Self-knowledge, and the Memory Argument
is tendentious. (Throughout this paper I shall refer to this claim as ‘the central assumption.’) Since I will be hanging much on a somewhat nonstandard take on the self-knowledge debate, I will review the debate with an eye towards motivating the central assumption; in the section that follows I reconstruct an argument whose point (I claim) is to challenge that assumption. Many people worry about the compatibility of the following two claims: