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Full Idea
To say that experiences have propositional content is not to say that experiences are beliefs.
Gist of Idea
An experience's having propositional content doesn't make it a belief
Source
James Pryor (There is immediate Justification [2005], §4)
Book Ref
'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology', ed/tr. Steup,M/Sosa,E [Blackwell 2005], p.188
A Reaction
This is important for opponents of foundationalism, because they will not allow a raw experience to act as a justification on its own. Even if concepts, or even propositions, are offered by experience, the crucial evaluation must preceded knowledge.