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    It is not the case that Intuitive cognition, for Ockham and the nominalist tradition, requires the actual presence or existence of the object as a causal condition.

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    • 1.We intuitively cognize past events through memory and distant objects through light-rays; the object's current existence is not strictly necessary.
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    • 2.This requirement seems to conflate the causal origin of a mental state with the phenomenological character of intuitive experience itself.
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    • 3.Hallucinations can be causally produced by brain states without any object's presence, suggesting causation alone doesn't guarantee intuitive cognition.
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    • 1.Causal interaction requires direct contact between cause and effect, which demands the object's actual existence at the moment of cognition.
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    • 2.Without requiring actual presence, we cannot distinguish genuine intuitive knowledge from mere imagination or false belief about absent objects.
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    • 3.Nominalism rejects abstract entities; only concrete, existing particulars can causally produce mental states that constitute intuitive cognition.
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