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Beliefs and sensations are linked through epistemological debates regarding their foundational relationship, as seen in Shoemaker's discussion of self-awareness [1] and Quine's critique of deriving beliefs from sensations [2], as well as the traditional epistemological goal of grounding world-beliefs in sensory data [3].
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Naturalized Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
accountTraditional epistemologists attempted to derive statements about the world from statements about sensations to show that science has an adequate foundation, operating on the premise that if beliefs about the world could be derived from certain beliefs about sensations, then the derived truths about the world would also be certain.
claimW.V.O. Quine argues that efforts to ground beliefs about the world by deriving them from sensations have failed because the proposed derivations do not work.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimSydney Shoemaker (1994) argues against the possibility of 'self-blindness,' which is the idea that a rational creature with necessary concepts could be unaware of its own sensations or beliefs.