I can't understand what McDowell's solution to the paradox is. From what I have gleaned from the two articles that were provided in class, it seems that he tries to show that impressions can in fact justify beliefs/concepts because the logical space of reasons is actually in the natural world.

But I'm not really sure, and I think I might have it really wrong. Does anyone know what McDowell's solution is? I'm really confused.

Thanks for clarifying that. But does McDowell actually give a solution to the problem and explain it without falling into the myth of the given? It seems nearly impossible.

One way that he might have said it was that the given actually already contained concepts, which I think he said that Sellar had said.

Also he says, "sensibility is an actualization of conceptual capacities." That might be a restatement of what Sellar said. It also sounds a bit like what Kant says in the Prolegomena, because I think Kant said that the senses can percieve things because the mind already has the capacity to conceptualize space and time. Actually, I'm not quite sure what Kant means when he explains his so-called "transcendental/critical idealism."