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    Challenges→An object of cognition must exhibit the conceptual characteristics of universality and singularity in order to be an epistemic object.

    McDowell's reading of Sellars shows that non-conceptual perceptual states can stand in rational relations to beliefs, granting them epistemic standing prior to full conceptualization.

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    Epistemic standing(as used in epistemology)
    How much a belief is worth trusting or how justified you are in believing it; basically, how good of a reason you have to think something is true.
    McDowell(referring to the philosopher's position on perception)
    John McDowell is a contemporary philosopher who writes about how we perceive and understand the world through our senses and thoughts.
    Non-conceptual perceptual states(epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    Raw sensory experiences—like seeing red or feeling pain—that happen in your mind before you attach words or concepts to them.
    Rational relations(contrasted with real relations in Aquinas's theory)
    Connections that exist only in how we think or talk about things, not in reality itself—like how we can say 'the cat is similar to the painting of the cat' even though the painting isn't really affected by the cat.

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    Sellars
    Wilfrid Sellars was an influential 20th-century American philosopher who fundamentally changed how we think about knowledge, perception, and meaning. He argued that our scientific understanding of the world and our everyday experiences of it aren't separate things but need to be brought together into one coherent picture. His ideas, particularly about how language relates to reality and how we know things, continue to shape modern philosophy.
    conceptualization(Barrett's Conceptual Act View)
    The cognitive process of categorizing a core affective state under a specific emotion concept, which on Barrett's view is constitutive of having that emotion

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