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| 8875 | Sense experiences must have conceptual content, since they are possible reasons for judgements |
| Full Idea: Given that sense experiential states do provide reasons for empirical beliefs, they must have conceptual content, ...where a mental state with conceptual content is one where the content is of a possible judgement by the subject. | |||
| From: Bill Brewer (Perceptual experience has conceptual content [2005], I) | |||
| A reaction: This is, I believe, wrong. Even complex observations, like a pool of blood, only become reasons when they have been interpreted. Otherwise they are just the raw ingredients of evidence. How could an uninterpreted red patch be a 'reason'? |