Sellars argues in 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' that perceptual states have propositional content only within a web of inferential commitments, making them revisable by coherentist norms.
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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.
Web of inferential commitments(the system within which perceptions gain meaning)
A network of connected beliefs and logical connections where each belief is supported by and connected to other beliefs, like links in a spider web.
propositional content(philosophy of language)
The semantic content of a sentence and its truth conditions, distinguished from the information a sentence is used to communicate