Pryor's dogmatist account holds that having a perceptual experience with content p gives immediate, non-inferential prima facie justification for p independent of any antecedent justification for the external world.
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Knowledge that we gain directly, without having to reason through steps or use logic to figure it out.
Pryor(the philosopher being cited as supporting the opposite view)
Jim Pryor, a contemporary philosopher who studies how beliefs get justified; he argues that what currently makes a belief justified depends on your present mental state, not its history.
external world(Descartes' Sixth Meditation, where the external world is not equivalent to the material world)
The domain of objects existing independently of the meditator's mind, which may include both immaterial beings (God) and material bodies
perceptual experience(as used in epistemology)
The direct sensory experiences you have when you see, hear, touch, taste, or smell something—what the world seems like to you right now.
prima facie justification(epistemology of perception)
Justification that holds independently of whether perception is reliable or whether the subject has evidence for its reliability, but which can be defeated by good reasons to think perception is unreliable or independent evidence that the belief is false