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    Challenges→Russell's account of a priori intuition can distinguish between a priori justifiable necessary propositions and empirically justifiable necessary propositions.

    If a priori intuition about analytic truths depends on socially-embedded linguistic competence, the distinction between 'understanding alone' and 'understanding plus world' collapses.

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    Socially-embedded(as used in social epistemology)
    Deeply rooted in or shaped by the social world and communities you're part of, rather than being purely individual or universal.
    The distinction between 'understanding alone' and 'understanding plus world'(as used in epistemology)
    The boundary between knowledge you get just from thinking and language (understanding alone) versus knowledge that requires actual experience with reality (understanding plus world).
    a priori(Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.)
    Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
    analytic truths(Humean account of necessary truths)
    Truths whose truth is grounded solely in the structure of language or conceptual schemes, requiring no mind-independent abstract entities or divine mind

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    intuition(Kant, Prolegomena 4:286)
    In Kant's usage, immediate sensory or spatial awareness that is not reducible to conceptual thought; the mode by which the distinction between right and left is apprehended.
    linguistic competence
    The end state of the language learning process, characterized by generative linguists as representation of abstract grammatical rules and by Tomasello as employment of rules at various levels of abstraction formulated in both syntactic and semantic terms

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