Wilfrid Sellars's 'Myth of the Given' demonstrates that any epistemic authority attributed to raw sensory states presupposes conceptual capacities that cannot themselves be non-inferentially justified.
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myth of the given(a view attributed to many empiricists)
The assumption that there is a privileged observation vocabulary whose meanings are fixed by what is given and are thus unrevisable or incorrigible
non-inferentially justified(epistemology (the study of knowledge and belief))
Believing something is true without needing to use reasoning or evidence from other beliefs—you just know it directly, like how you know you're in pain when you stub your toe.