 Something like indeterminate perception is posited by moderate foundationalists in analytic epistemology as helping to solve the problem of a justification regress, it seems (Phillips 2012: 50). A mental state not embedding an assertion and so immune to questions whether it is true or false is proposed. BonJour (2003: 20): “ … such a state is, as it were, semi-assertive or semi-judgmental in character: it has a kind of content or cognitive significance, but not in a way that would raise a further issue of justification.” Such a comparison could be misleading, however. Perception, according to Gaṅgeśa, is a doxastic justifier. The foundations of our worldly beliefs are doxastic in that determinate perceptions embed propositions that say at a minimum that something is some way or another. Concept-free perception may be thought of as Nyāya’s way of rendering our ability to form concepts merely from perception’s phenomenological side. It is a theoretical posit made to explain how our concepts originate in reality—a problem that is epitomized in cases of a first-time perception of something as an F, the concept F-hood being previously unavailable to the perceiver.