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What does Davidson mean by denying the dualism of scheme/content? What is his argument for this thesis?
The first thing to address in this question is the idea of scheme/content distinction. The scheme content distinction is the individuation of content, which is what is given in experience and is better referred to as intuition, and the individual’s organisation of the intuitions which they receive. The scheme is the way in which what is given to us by perception is organised post perception. Any theory which poses a scheme content distinction will, however, have to deal with the consequence that it appears to lack a method off contact with the world. The problem comes in the separation of the received experiences, or intuitions, from their structure and the introduction of a separate entity to do this the scheme. ...
Davidson, however, argues that our experience has a direct connection with the world. This connection is not, however a return to the ‘myth of the given’ but instead Davidson is positing a different but connected view. For Davidson the world is directly experienced, that is we have immediate and unmediated contact with the world itself, contact is not mediated through concepts but in direct connection to the world which is presented, through intuition. We have a direct experience of the world but for Davidson this experience does not require organisation with reference to a scheme. Davidson denies the scheme/content distinction by attempting to deny that post experiential organisation is required. Davidson wants to say that the work that the scheme of conceptual organisation is usually supposed to do is replaced, instead, by the world itself.
The world, for Davidson, is pre-structured. ... The world itself is structured and as such does not require organisation. ... The denial of the class of scheme means that the intuitions, which we experience, are inseparable from the world that we are experiencing.
Approximate Word count = 1505
Approximate Pages = 6
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