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    Supports→The Sellarsian dilemma undermines the epistemological role foundationalism requires of experiences

    A genuinely non-doxastic state that lacks correctness conditions cannot transmit propositional justification to beliefs about how things appear, as Pryor's dogmatist account implicitly concedes by requiring 'seemings' to have propositional structure.

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    Dogmatist account(describes Pryor's approach to justification)
    A theory in philosophy that says our direct sensory experiences (like seeing a red apple) automatically give us good reasons to believe what we're perceiving, without needing to first prove that our senses are reliable.
    Non-doxastic state(describing types of mental states)
    A mental experience or condition that isn't a belief—like seeing something appear a certain way, which happens to you before you decide whether to believe it.
    Pryor(the philosopher being cited as supporting the opposite view)
    Jim Pryor, a contemporary philosopher who studies how beliefs get justified; he argues that what currently makes a belief justified depends on your present mental state, not its history.
    Transmit propositional justification(describing how one mental state can support another)
    To pass along a reason for believing something; if you have a good reason to think 'the sky looks blue to me,' that reason can support a belief about the sky's color.

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    correctness conditions(Platitude about meaningful expressions)
    Conditions under which an application of an expression counts as correct, such that mistaken or erroneous applications are in principle possible.
    propositional justification(Acquaintance theory of epistemic justification)
    Justification that a subject has or possesses for believing that p, even if the subject does not believe that p or does not properly base a belief on that justification; requires acquaintance with a relevant fact plus awareness of that fact's relevance to p's truth.
    propositional structure(Introduced as a convenient label for the kind of structure truth-makers must possess.)
    Structure, syntactic or quasi-syntactic, of the same general kind possessed by declarative sentences, thoughts, and propositions.
    seemings(Epistemology of perception and foundationalism)
    Non-belief perceptual or experiential states that play the epistemological role of conferring justification on basic beliefs without themselves requiring justification

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