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Ideas for Stilpo, Johann Fichte and John McDowell

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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

8253	Sense impressions already have conceptual content [McDowell]
	Full Idea: The world's impressions on our senses are already possessed of conceptual content.
	From: John McDowell (Mind and World [1994], I.6)
	A reaction: This is a key idea of McDowell's, which challenges most traditional empiricist views, and (maybe) offers a solution to the rationalist/empiricist debate. His commitment to the 'space of reasons' strikes me as an optional extra.