Lexicon of Arguments

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I XII
Knowledge/Sellars: knowledge has the form "this and that is so and so." Known is something about a single object, but not a single object itself.
>About, >Particulars, >Individuals, >Intentionality, >Word meaning, >Cognition, >Perception, >World/thinking.
Sense data: Problem to make foundation for justification of them: the sense data of the empiricists are single objects, but only with respect to facts one can speak of a knowledge.
>Sense data.
I 59
It is wrong to think that knowledge must be inferential at all. (> Myth of the Given).
I 65
Tradition: knowledge has episodic character and does not rely on pre-knowledge. - SellarsVs.
Knowledge/SellarsVsTradition: observational knowledge does not stand on its own feet. - It requires language acquisition. - At the point of time of previous perceptions one must not have had the term yet.
>Observation, >Observation language, >Psychological Nominalism, >Language acquisition.

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