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    Foundationalism requires that experiences justify beliefs... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The Sellarsian dilemma undermines the epistemological role foundationalism requires of experiences

    Foundationalism requires that experiences justify beliefs without themselves needing justification

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    Perhaps the most important problem for this view concerns the relevant understanding of seemings, or perceptual experience. It is clear that seemings must be non-belief states of some sort, as their epistemological role is to confer justification on basic beliefs, and the latter wouldn’t be basic if seemings were themselves beliefs. The “Sellarsian dilemma” is a famous argument, due perhaps as much to BonJour (1978, 1985) as to Sellars (1956), which claims that “experience” and “seemings” and th

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