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    A state that requires no further justificatory inference ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Conceptual awareness of sensations cannot serve as a nondoxastic foundation that confers justification on beliefs without itself needing justification

    A state that requires no further justificatory inference can still serve as a foundation even if it involves conceptual content, as Pryor's dogmatist position demonstrates.

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    • 1.Perceptual experiences have intrinsic rational force that justifies beliefs without requiring inference from prior justified beliefs.
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    • 2.Conceptual content in foundational states doesn't undermine their foundational status if that content is constitutively part of the experience itself.
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    • 3.Dogmatism avoids infinite regress and circular justification problems that plague coherentist and traditional foundationalist accounts.
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    • 1.If foundational states require conceptual content, they depend on prior mastery of concepts, which itself requires justification.
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    • 2.The rational force of experience cannot be foundational if its justificatory power derives partly from background conceptual schemes, not intrinsically.
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    • 3.Dogmatism lacks a principled account of when perceptual seemings should be overridden by contrary evidence or background knowledge.
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