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    A successful argument for selective skepticism regarding intuitions must not equally apply to many other sources of putatively justified belief.

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    • 1.If an argument for skepticism about intuitions would also justify skepticism regarding perceptual, memorial, or introspective belief, it shows nothing distinctively problematic about intuitions or beliefs based upon them.
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    • 2.Selective skepticism about intuitions requires showing something distinctively problematic about intuitions.
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    • 1.Intuitions are uniquely vulnerable because, unlike perception, they lack independent error-detection mechanisms such as cross-modal verification or causal connection to external states.
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    • 2.The absence of such mechanisms in intuition means skeptical arguments targeting intuitions can be structurally distinct even when superficially resembling arguments against perception.
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    • 3.Therefore, a skeptical argument can apply exclusively to intuitions without collateral damage to other epistemic sources, satisfying selectivity without the parity constraint the claim imposes.
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    • 1.Experimental philosophy demonstrates that intuitive judgments vary systematically with culture, order effects, and demographic factors in ways that perceptual beliefs demonstrably do not.
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    • 2.When a skeptical argument is grounded in this empirical variance specific to intuition, it is selective by design and does not generalize to sources lacking that variance profile.
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    • 3.Weinberg, Nichols, and Stich's demographic variation data thus grounds a genuinely selective skepticism that refutes the claim's implicit assumption that no such targeted argument is possible.
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    Third, a successful argument for selective skepticism regarding intuitions must be one which does not equally apply to many other sources of putatively justified belief. After all, if the argument at issue would also justify skepticism regarding perceptual belief and/or memorial and/or introspective belief, it shows nothing distinctively problematic about intuitions or beliefs based upon them. Call this constraint on a successful argument, “the local skepticism constraint.”
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