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    It is not the case that Platonist appeals to rational intuition (à la Gödel) lack any principled account of why intuition reliably tracks mind-independent abstract reality.

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    • 1.Sensory perception has evolutionary explanation for reliability; abstract mathematical intuition lacks analogous naturalistic selection pressure.
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    • 2.Disagreement among mathematicians about foundational axioms (continuum hypothesis, large cardinals) suggests intuition doesn't reliably track determinate facts.
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    • 3.Unless platonists explain the mechanism linking human minds to abstract objects, the theory remains epistemically idle—compatible with any intuitive output.
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    • 1.Empirical reliabilism about perception lacks principled accounts of why sensory mechanisms track physical reality, yet we accept perceptual knowledge.
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    • 2.Mathematical intuitions show convergence across cultures and centuries without causal contact, suggesting non-arbitrary alignment with abstract truths.
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    • 3.The demand for a causal-mechanical explanation of intuitive access may smuggle in physicalist assumptions that beg the question against platonism.
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