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    It is not the case that Intuitionist moral epistemology (Ross, Prichard) holds that the relative stringency of prima facie duties is apprehended directly, not constructed through contextual weighing.

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    • 1.If stringency were directly apprehended, we'd expect less cultural and historical variation in duty hierarchies across societies.
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    • 2.Intuitionists cannot explain how intuitive apprehension reliably tracks moral truth independent of evolutionary pressures shaping our moral sense.
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    • 3.The claim conflates phenomenological directness with metaphysical non-constructedness—duties may feel immediate yet still be constructed.
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    • 1.Moral disagreement persists even among rational agents with identical factual knowledge, suggesting duty-stringency isn't constructed but directly perceived.
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    • 2.Constructivist accounts struggle to explain why contextual weighing feels constrained by objective limits rather than purely plastic.
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    • 3.Expert moral judges (like ethicists) show convergence on hard cases, paralleling perceptual expertise in other domains.
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