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    Intuition is not an alternative to reasoning about propositions whose truth can be established by logical reasons.

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    • 1.Reasoning provides logical reasons for the truth of propositions.
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    • 2.Intuition can only furnish a reason for holding a proposition to be true, not a reason for why it is true.
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    • 3.Nothing can take the place of logical reasons for the truth of any proposition.
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    • 1.Gödel argued that mathematical intuition directly perceives abstract truths that formal proof systems cannot themselves establish (Gödel 1947).
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    • 2.If some propositions are true but unprovable within any formal system, logical reasoning alone cannot exhaust the grounds for holding them true.
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    • 3.Intuition in such cases does not merely report a psychological disposition but tracks truth where logical derivation is structurally unavailable.
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    • 1.Rationalists from Descartes to BonJour hold that intuition of self-evident truths constitutes the foundational epistemic bedrock upon which logical reasoning itself depends.
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    • 2.If logical reasoning requires primitive axioms whose warrant is non-inferential, then 'logical reasons' presuppose rather than replace intuitive justification.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's P3 therefore begs the question by assuming logic is self-grounding rather than intuition-dependent.
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    [T]he fundamental principles of Ethics must be self-evident. But I am anxious that this expression should not be misunderstood. The expression “self-evident” means properly that the proposition so called is evident or true, by itself alone; that it is not an inference from some proposition other than itself. The expression does not mean that the proposition is true, because it is evident to you or me or all mankind, because in other words it appears to us to be true. That a proposition appears t
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