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    It is not the case that There must be immediate judgments

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    • 1.The inference from 'mediated judgments exist' to 'immediate judgments must exist' assumes a linear foundational structure of justification.
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    • 2.Coherentist epistemology, as advanced by Neurath and BonJour, shows that justificatory chains can be mutually supporting without any terminus in unmediated judgment.
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    • 3.A regress that is circular or holistic rather than linear requires no immediate stopping point to avoid vicious infinite regress.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.All judgment involves conceptual mediation, as Sellars argued: there is no 'Given' that stands outside the inferential web of reasons.
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    • 2.If no judgment escapes conceptual mediation, the regress Bolzano fears does not terminate in immediate judgments but is instead holistically grounded.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Mediated judgments obviously exist
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    • 2.The existence of mediated judgments entails the existence of immediate judgments
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