Is there a good argument against the incorrigibility thesis?

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 51 (1):51-62 (1973)
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"the incorrigibility thesis", The thesis that it is logically impossible to be mistaken about such things as whether I am now in pain or am seeing or seeming to see something red, Is very widely supposed to be false. I consider the arguments designed to show this, And argue that they all fail

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