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    It is not the case that 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.A tradition need not be grounded in what its central figures explicitly endorse; it can be grounded in what they implicitly rely upon.
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    • 2.Demoting sensory intuition need not eliminate intuition's grounding role—intellectual intuition alone suffices as a foundational source.
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    • 3.Early modern epistemology may rest on multiple heterogeneous foundations rather than a single unified grounding principle like intuition.
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    • 1.Descartes centrally rejected sensory intuition as unreliable and denied intellectual intuition's universality, yet shaped early modern epistemology.
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    • 2.If intuition cannot ground a tradition, alternative foundations (reason, method, doubt) must do so instead, but these weren't universally accepted.
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    • 3.Early modern epistemology exhibits persistent appeals to intuitive justification despite key figures' theoretical denials of its validity.
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