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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Perceptual beliefs also vary culturally: color categorization, gestalt completion, and spatial reasoning differ significantly across societies.
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    • 2.Variation in philosophical intuitions may reflect different interpretations of ambiguous language, not fundamental unreliability of intuitive judgment itself.
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    • 3.Experimental philosophy conflates intuition variability with unreliability; stable systematic variation across groups doesn't prove intuitions lack justificatory force.
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    • 1.Experimental philosophy studies show moral intuitions about trolley problems shift with scenario framing; perceptual color identification remains constant across contexts.
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    • 2.Demographic variation in philosophical intuitions (e.g., on knowledge, free will) exceeds variation in basic perceptual tasks, suggesting different cognitive mechanisms.
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    • 3.Order effects demonstrably influence philosophical judgments but not low-level perception, indicating intuitions lack perceptual robustness.
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