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    Supports→A priori intuitions can be distinguished from physical intuitions by whether the proposition seems true solely on the basis of understanding it.

    A priori intuitions are psychological states where a proposition seems true solely on the basis of understanding that proposition.

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    We have seen that Bealer thinks that a rational intuition is a modal seeming: either a seeming to be true and necessarily true, or a seeming to be possible. In other places Russell (2017: 232) defines an a priori intuition as the psychological state people are in when some proposition seems true to them solely on the basis of their understanding that proposition. This definition of an a priori intuition allows us to distinguish between what Bealer called a physical intuition that a house undermi

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