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Full Idea
Davidson thinks that experience can be nothing but an extra-conceptual impact on sensibility. So he concludes that experience must be outside the space of reasons.
Gist of Idea
Davidson believes experience is non-conceptual, and outside the space of reasons
Source
report of Donald Davidson (Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge [1983], I.6) by John McDowell - Mind and World I
Book Ref
McDowell,John: 'Mind and World' [Harvard 1996], p.14
A Reaction
McDowell's challenge to the view that experience is extra-conceptual seems to be the key debate among modern empiricists. My only intuition in this area is that we should beware of all-or-nothing solutions to such problems.