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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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