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    Belief (H) qualifies as basic according to default and challenge (DB) foundationalism

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    • 1.Experiential belief (E) justifies belief (H) about the hat itself
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    • 2.Belief (H) does not receive any additional justification from any further beliefs held by the subject
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    • 3.According to DB foundationalism, a belief is basic if it is justified without receiving that justification from other beliefs of the subject
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    • 1.DB foundationalism requires that a belief be default-justified absent defeaters, but perceptual beliefs like (H) require background conceptual competence to even form.
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    • 2.Background conceptual competence constitutes an implicit inferential dependency on prior beliefs, meaning (H) does receive justification from other beliefs in a non-trivial sense.
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    • 3.A belief that depends on prior conceptual beliefs for its content cannot qualify as basic under any foundationalism that treats basicness as inferential independence.
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    • 1.Wilfrid Sellars argued in 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' that no epistemic work can be done by experiences absent their being brought under concepts.
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    • 2.If experience (E) justifies (H) only via conceptual mediation, then the justificatory chain runs through the subject's grasp of concepts, which are themselves belief-like states.
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    • 3.DB foundationalism's notion of basicness is undermined if the experiential justifier (E) is itself not epistemically autonomous but depends on the subject's doxastic background.
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    Unlike (B), (H) is about the hat itself, and not the way the hat appears to you. Such a belief is not one about which we are infallible or otherwise epistemically privileged. Privilege foundationalism would, therefore, classify (H) as nonbasic. It is, however, quite plausible to think that (E) justifies not only (B) but (H) as well. If (E) is indeed what justifies (H), and (H) does not receive any additional justification from any further beliefs of yours, then (H) qualifies, according to DB, as
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