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Doctrine of Privileged Access

The strong doctrine of privileged access is formulated on the premise that the essence and capacity of the mind are known by consciousness. ... In order for this process to give justified self knowledge, the strong doctrine of privileged access asserts two concurrent propositions, that of infallibility and of omniscience. ... The thesis of omniscience believes that our access to the conscious mind is so intimate that it is impossible to not know what mentally happens in us, it is all-knowing. ... It believes that our access to the conscious mind is again so intimate that the beliefs about what’s going on is at no risk of error, it is infallible. ...
There is a problem however, if we have such an intimate access to our mind that supports the strong doctrine of privilege access then it stands to reason that all mental processes occurs inside of our absolute awareness. ... If my privileged access put me in a position to know my mental self, why then did I have a false belief that I could be productive under such conditions? ...
So, if the strong doctrine of privileged access is not entirely true, what then can I know.


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