Sosa's distinction between animal and reflective knowledge entails that merely having a strong intuition about a case establishes no more than a disposition, not a reliably truth-tracking faculty for normative epistemic facts.
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entails(describes a logical relationship between statements)
Logically forces or guarantees; if A entails B, then whenever A is true, B must also be true.
intuition(Kant, Prolegomena 4:286)
In Kant's usage, immediate sensory or spatial awareness that is not reducible to conceptual thought; the mode by which the distinction between right and left is apprehended.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
normative epistemic facts(the statement distinguishes between intuitions about cases and facts about what makes knowledge valid)
Facts about how knowledge *should* work—what counts as genuine knowledge and what standards our beliefs must meet to be justified.
truth-tracking faculty(the statement questions whether intuitions can be a reliable truth-tracking faculty)
A reliable ability or power of the mind that consistently leads you toward true beliefs rather than false ones.