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    It is not the case that The contents of most philosophical intuitions will not be part of the best explanation of our having those intuitions (outside of attitude contexts).

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    • 1.Rationalist accounts (Bealer, BonJour) hold that a priori intuitions are produced by rational insight into conceptual or necessary structures.
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    • 2.If rational insight is a genuine epistemic faculty, the content of the intuition—the necessary truth grasped—is constitutively part of its own best explanation.
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    • 3.Harman-style inference-to-best-explanation skepticism applies most forcefully to contingent empirical beliefs, not to intuitions whose truth-conditions are necessary.
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    • 1.Some philosophical intuitions track modal truths (e.g., that contradictions are impossible) whose content directly explains why we have them.
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    • 2.If intuitions are reliable indicators of necessity, their contents figure in the best causal-explanatory story of our cognitive access to those truths.
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    • There is equally good reason to apply the reasoning behind [P1] to philosophical intuitions as to other propositions.
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