Sellars's critique of the 'Myth of the Given' establishes that neither mind-dependent nor mind-independent starting points can be derived from experience without presupposing the very framework under dispute.

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Presupposing(what the externalist secretly assumes in their reasoning): To assume something is already true without proving it, usually without realizing you're doing it.
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.
framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic): A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.
mind-dependent(metaphysics): A thing is mind-dependent in the metaphysical sense when it somehow owes its existence to minds — not merely that it would not have existed if minds had not existed (which would make tables and chairs mind-dependent)

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