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    It is not the case that Quine and Sellars demonstrate that the 'manifest image' of common sense lacks evidential priority over systematic metaphysical inquiry.

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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