The fact that certain first-person thoughts are 'identification-free'—meaning they depend for their reference on no identification of oneself as a publicly presented object—contributes to the philosophical idea that these thoughts pick out a private object, such as a soul. This concept is connected to G.E.M. Anscombe's argument for the non-referential character of 'I'.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Sources

• Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• first-person pronoun 'I' concept
• immaterial mind concept
• G.E.M. Anscombe entity