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    An intuition of an idea's adequacy does not by itself establish the independent existence of the object represented by that idea.

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    • 1.Intuition establishes only the self-certifying character of certain ideas.
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    • 2.The existence of a mind-independent object corresponding to an idea is a further question that requires separate argument or a distinct form of intuition.
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    • 1.For Descartes, the clarity and distinctness of an idea is itself a criterion guaranteed by God's veracity to track mind-independent reality.
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    • 2.If God is no deceiver, then maximally adequate intuitions cannot systematically misrepresent what exists, collapsing the gap between adequacy and existence.
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    • 1.Husserl's principle of principles holds that what presents itself originarily in intuition is to be accepted as it gives itself, as a source of epistemic right.
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    • 2.If intuitive givenness carries its own justificatory force, the demand for a 'separate argument' for existence imports an unjustified skeptical burden not inherent in the phenomenology of intuition itself.
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    How, on the Classical view, do we know that an idea is a representation of an object—and an adequate representation? Not, Foucault argues, by comparing the idea with the object as it is apart from its representation. This is impossible, since it would require knowing the object without a representation (when, for Classical thought, to know is to represent). The only possibility is that the idea itself must make it apparent that it is a representation. The idea represents the very fact that it is
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