Lexicon of Arguments

 

Rorty VI 179 ff
Belief/Sellars: every belief is revisable.
Rorty: Belief/SellarsVsEmpiricism: can only be justified by concepts. (s) Not through "direct perception", "intuition", "experience", etc.).
>Perception, >Empiricism.
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I XXXIII
Ryle: had suggested to conceive mental predicates like "being convinced", "believing", etc. as expressions of dispositions, however without accounting for the fact that, again, there is an explanation instance, be it in the nature of the Freudian ego or superego.
>Gilbert Ryle, >Dispositions/Ryle, >Behavior/Ryle.

Ryle: being convinced means to behave in a certain way.
Sellars: goes one step further than Ryle by asking how the behavioral dispositions themselves can also be explained.
E.g., His tie retailer John developed a kind of theory which specifically refers to the verbal behavior of a community of Rylean ancestors.
>Rylean ancestors.

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II 325
Action: fundamental beliefs are expressed in uniformity of behavior. This does not mean that no deviations are possible, but only that the representation of a principle is in any case also characterized by uniformity of behavior.
>Regularity, >Behavior/Sellars.