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    Quine and Sellars demonstrate that the 'manifest image' o... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Both the existence monist and existence nihilist must establish that the premises of the exclusion argument (or any alternative they provide) have sufficient plausibility to override considerations from intuition and perception.

    Quine and Sellars demonstrate that the 'manifest image' of common sense lacks evidential priority over systematic metaphysical inquiry.

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    • 1.Common sense intuitions about objects and causation often conflict with empirically validated scientific theories.
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    • 2.Systematic metaphysical frameworks can identify hidden assumptions in manifest image reasoning that distort understanding.
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    • 3.Historical paradigm shifts show that rejecting common sense appearances often better explains phenomena than preserving them.
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    • 1.Metaphysical systems themselves depend on foundational intuitions drawn from common sense to gain coherence and meaning.
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    • 2.The manifest image provides practical epistemic reliability for navigation and prediction in everyday contexts without systematic justification.
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    • 3.Claiming metaphysics has priority over common sense requires a non-question-begging argument that metaphysics escapes similar critique.
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