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    It is not the case that Conceptual awareness of sensations cannot serve as a nondoxastic foundation that confers justification on beliefs without itself needing justification

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    • 1.Conceptual awareness of sensations can be non-inferentially justified, constituting a distinct epistemic category between bare sensation and full belief.
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    • 2.Sellars' own account allows that some conceptual episodes are epistemically credentialed by their causal-functional role rather than by further beliefs.
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    • 3.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.Chisholm's self-presenting states show that some mental states are directly evident precisely because their existence and their appearing are identical, bypassing the need for justifying beliefs.
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    • 2.If a conceptual awareness of a sensation is self-presenting in Chisholm's sense, its justificatory status is intrinsic and does not depend on further doxastic support, preserving its foundational role.
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    • 1.The kind of awareness of sensations that involves the application of concepts just is one's knowledge of one's experiences — that is, one's justified, true, unGettiered appearance belief
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    • 2.A state that is itself a justified belief is not a nondoxastic foundation
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    • 3.A nondoxastic foundation must confer justification on beliefs without itself being in need of justification
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