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    It is not the case that Experiences with any kind of content (including nonconceptual) can stand in evidential relations to beliefs.

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    • 1.Evidential relations require the relata to be assessable as correct or incorrect by the same cognitive subject bearing the belief.
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    • 2.Nonconceptual contents, by definition, cannot be reflectively accessed or assessed by a subject who lacks the relevant concepts.
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    • 3.Therefore nonconceptual contents cannot serve as evidence for beliefs, which require conceptual articulation to be rationally weighed.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Having truth conditions is necessary but not sufficient for standing in evidential relations; the content must also be inferentially available to the believer.
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    • 2.McDowell's 'Mind and World' demonstrates that only conceptually structured experience can make rational contact with the space of reasons where belief justification occurs.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.As long as experiences have contents of any sort, they have truth conditions.
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    • 2.Having truth conditions is sufficient to stand in entailment and probabilistic relations to beliefs.
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