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    It is not the case that Belief (H) qualifies as basic according to default and challenge (DB) foundationalism

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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