Cassam and Peacocke have developed transcendental arguments grounded in the possession conditions for concepts, which sidestep Stroud's gap between our conceptual schemes and external reality.
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A famous philosophical problem (identified by philosopher Barry Stroud) suggesting there's an unbridgeable gap between how our minds organize experience and what the world is actually like independently of our minds.
conceptual schemes(how culture shapes interpretation of experiences)
The mental frameworks and categories a person uses to understand and interpret the world around them, shaped by their culture, language, and upbringing.
transcendental arguments(Epistemology of self-knowledge)
Arguments that assume the existence of some sort of experience or capacity, then develop insights about the background conditions necessary for that experience or capacity, and finally conclude that those background conditions must in fact be met.