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    It is not the case that The Cartesian move of 'withdrawing from the senses' removes the very intuitive content that would allow intellectual perception to be about reality rather than mere logical form.

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    • 1.Intellectual perception of abstract objects (numbers, logical truths) operates successfully without sensory content, suggesting intuition ≠ sensory dependence.
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    • 2.The distinction between logical form and reality can be epistemically maintained through reason alone; sensory withdrawal need not erase this distinction.
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    • 3.Descartes himself uses pure intellection to establish foundational truths (cogito), suggesting withdrawn thought can still achieve reality-contact without senses.
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    • 1.Intuitive content from sensory experience grounds abstract concepts in particulars, preventing them from collapsing into mere formal manipulations.
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    • 2.Without sensory anchoring, intellectual thought can generate internally consistent but empirically empty logical systems detached from reality.
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    • 3.The aboutness relation—what makes a thought concern actual things—requires material contact through perception, not pure intellection alone.
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