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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Pre-conceptual sensory discrimination (color gradations animals recognize) grounds rational inference without explicit conceptualization.
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    • 2.McDowell conflates the structure required for *articulating* reasons with structure required for *having* rational contact with them.
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    • 3.Perceptual content can have determinate rational relevance through non-conceptual fine-grained structure unavailable to concepts.
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    • 1.Reasons are inherently conceptual—they involve propositional content that can be true or false, which requires conceptual structure.
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    • 2.Non-conceptual content cannot stand in logical relations (entailment, contradiction) needed to justify one belief via another.
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    • 3.If experience lacked conceptual structure, it would be epistemically inert—causally triggering belief but never rationally justifying it.
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