 This section describes some paradigmatic examples motivating a distinctive category of self-locating belief, and disentangles the argumentative threads those examples support. The self-locating belief literature is heavily driven by a cluster of evocative examples. The distinctive category of self-locating belief, and the various proposals for how to theorize about it, are often motivated by the felicitous treatment they offer of these examples. But it’s not always clear exactly what argumentative work the examples are doing, and which examples are driving which arguments. This section charts the argumentative landscape by working through a dialectic that’s a bit artificial, but we think useful for seeing how the pieces fit together.