Of course, Hegel's argument against the Given precedes them both by over two centuries...and Peirce's by a few decades. And Dewey was making similar arguments in the mid-1910s. ;) None of this negates the value of finding these arguments in Edgell's work, of course! It adds to the rich history of such arguments, in fact, and shows that there is a tradition of thought here that has long been opposed to immediate knowledge from mere sensory acquiantance.
Of course, Hegel's argument against the Given precedes them both by over two centuries...and Peirce's by a few decades. And Dewey was making similar arguments in the mid-1910s. ;) None of this negates the value of finding these arguments in Edgell's work, of course! It adds to the rich history of such arguments, in fact, and shows that there is a tradition of thought here that has long been opposed to immediate knowledge from mere sensory acquiantance.