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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The ability of something to make itself known or obvious without needing anything else to explain or prove it exists.
conceptual awareness(Sellars's distinction between two kinds of awareness)
A kind of awareness of sensations that involves the application of concepts and entails knowledge and justification; identified with one's justified, true, unGettiered appearance belief
justificatory status(epistemology)
The quality of being a good reason or piece of evidence for believing something.
sensation(Used by Amo to argue that sensation is incompatible with the purely active nature of the mind.)
A purely passive reception of sensory information.