Wilfrid Sellars argued in 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' that all epistemic justification is inferential, making the category of genuinely non-inferential 'immediate' judgment incoherent.

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Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind(as a historical reference): A famous 1956 essay by Sellars challenging the traditional view that sense experience alone can justify our beliefs about the world.
Epistemology / Epistemic(as in 'epistemic justification'): The study of knowledge—what it is, how we get it, and what makes something count as true knowledge rather than just guessing.
Incoherent(describing whether moral responsibility can exist): Logically impossible or contradictory; something that cannot make sense or cannot exist at the same time as something else.
Justification (in philosophy)(as in 'epistemic justification'): The reasons or evidence that make a belief reasonable to hold; what makes a claim count as knowledge rather than just an opinion.
Non-inferential (or immediate judgment)

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