Ludwig Wittgenstein suggests that the phenomenon of immunity to error through misidentification (IEM) is responsible for the mistaken opinion that the use of 'I' as a subject refers to an immaterial soul. Wittgenstein argues that self-ascriptions of psychological predicates do not rely on an identification of a bodily or non-bodily entity, but rather rely on no identification at all.

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

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

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• immunity to error through misidentification concept
• first-person pronoun 'I' concept
• Ludwig Wittgenstein entity
• immaterial mind concept