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    It is not the case that Early modern philosophy is grounded in intuition, whether intellectual or sensory.

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    • 1.Leibniz grounds knowledge in innate logical principles and demonstrative inference, not sensory or intellectual intuition of particulars.
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    • 2.For Leibniz, even 'clear and distinct' perception reduces to formal relations between concepts, making deduction—not intuition—foundational.
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    • 3.A tradition grounded primarily in deductive systematicity cannot be accurately characterized as fundamentally intuition-based.
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    • 1.Locke explicitly rejects innate ideas and intellectual intuition, grounding knowledge instead in reflective operations on experiential content.
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    • 2.Locke's 'sensitive knowledge' of external existence is explicitly ranked below intuitive and demonstrative knowledge, subordinating sensation to inferential warrant.
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    • 3.If a central figure in early modern epistemology demotes sensory intuition and denies intellectual intuition, intuition cannot ground the tradition as a whole.
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    • 1.Adequacy of representation cannot be established by external comparison.
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    • 2.Some subset of ideas must bear witness to their own adequacy from within—such as Descartes' clear and distinct perceptions or Hume's simple impressions.
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    • 3.Self-certifying ideas of this kind constitute a form of intuition.
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