Armchair necessities contradicted by facts

These arguments seem compelling, but attempts to work out from the armchair what is necessary for experience to be possible, as Cassam and Kant do, are always vulnerable to facts emerging on the ground which plain contradict them. People with Cotard Syndrome or transient epileptic amnesia, for instance, which we came across in Chapter Two, simply do not conform to Cassam’s armchair stipulations

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