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    It is not the case that Wilfrid Sellars argued in 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' that no epistemic work can be done by experiences absent their being brought under concepts.

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    • 1.Infants and animals acquire knowledge through experience before developing sophisticated conceptual schemes.
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    • 2.The requirement that all epistemic work needs concepts seems to depend on conflating 'having justification' with 'articulating justification'.
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    • 3.Some perceptual discriminations occur pre-conceptually; explaining these requires granting non-conceptual content causal-epistemic roles.
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    • 1.Raw sensations alone cannot justify beliefs without being categorized and integrated into a conceptual framework.
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    • 2.Concept-application is necessary to distinguish what counts as evidence for one proposition versus another.
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    • 3.Pre-conceptual experiences lack the structure needed to serve as reasons that can be articulated and rationally defended.
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