myth of the given
type: Concept
definition: The myth of the given is Wilfrid Sellars's name, introduced in his Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, for a broad epistemological strategy shared between a wide variety of empiricist traditions. The work was originally delivered as lectures at the University of London (Special Lectures on Philosophy for 1955–1956), on March 1, 8, and 15, 1956, under the title The Myth of the Given: Three Lectures on Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Given, Myth of the]
broader: general philosophy

general philosophy
type: Concept
narrower: myth of the given

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: myth of the given