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- Thus, in rejecting the Myth of the Given, McDowell argues that perceptual content is conceptual " from the ground up ", that is, all perceptual experience is a form of conceptual experience.
- McDowell's touchstone is the famous refutation that Wilfrid Sellars provided for what he called the " Myth of the Given " the notion that all empirical knowledge is based on certain assumed or'given'items, such as sense data.
- An analytic philosopher, Rorty believed that combining Willard Van Orman Quine's criticism of the analytic-synthetic distinction with Wilfrid Sellars's critique of the " Myth of the Given " allowed for an abandonment of the view of the thought or language as a mirror of a reality or external world.
- Sellars is well known as a critic of foundationalist epistemology the " Myth of the Given " as he called it but his philosophical works are more generally directed toward the ultimate goal of reconciling intuitive ways of describing the world ( both those of common sense and traditional philosophy ) with a thoroughly naturalist, scientific account of reality.
- McDowell develops a stringent reading of Sellars'diagnosis of a " myth of the given " in perceptual experience to argue that we need always to separate out the exercise of concepts in experience from a causal account of the pre-conditions of experience and that the idea of " non-conceptual content " straddles this boundary in a philosophically unacceptable way.
