Scotus's argument against infinite regress in contingent knowledge presupposes that immediate apprehension of one's own acts constitutes propositional knowledge, which Sellars's critique of the Myth of the Given denies.
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infinite regress(modes of argumentation available to a dogmatist)
An argument structure in which grounds are offered for a claim P, then grounds for those grounds, and so on indefinitely without ever repeating a proposition
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
myth of the given(a view attributed to many empiricists)
The assumption that there is a privileged observation vocabulary whose meanings are fixed by what is given and are thus unrevisable or incorrigible
propositional knowledge(Used to argue that even first-person experiential knowledge involves fallible classification)
Knowledge expressed as a proposition, which requires classifying the subject matter together with other things of the same type