The alleged epistemic asymmetry between beliefs and appearances dissolves if normative assessment applies to how one deploys concepts in perceptual uptake, as Sellars's argument implies.
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Normative assessment(refers to assessing God morally or ethically)
Judging something according to standards of what is right, wrong, good, or bad—making a moral or ethical evaluation.
Perceptual uptake(as the target of normative assessment)
The process of taking in information through your senses and turning it into meaningful experience.
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.
asymmetry(Modal logic frame semantics)
A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.