P.F. Strawson claims that one can only ascribe mental states to oneself if one is capable of ascribing them to others, which implies that the capacity to think of others' mental states cannot be gained through analogical reasoning from one's own case.

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  Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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