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    Challenges→The negation of the proposition that mountains are impossible can be the content of an intuition.

    The counterintuitive claim in Williamson's argument can be characterized as the claim that no suitable arrangement of matter is metaphysically sufficient for the presence of a mountain (i.e., that mountains are impossible).

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    Counterintuitive(describes the strange result that the statement's logic produces)
    A conclusion that seems wrong or goes against what we'd normally expect, even if it might be logically correct.
    Williamson
    # Williamson Williamson most commonly refers to Timothy Williamson, a prominent British philosopher known for his work on knowledge, logic, and language. He's influential in contemporary philosophy for arguing that knowledge is more fundamental than belief and that traditional definitions of knowledge may be too restrictive. His ideas have shaped how philosophers think about what it means to know something and how language relates to reality.

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    arrangement of matter(what Williamson is discussing as potentially making mountains)
    The way physical stuff (atoms, molecules, rock, etc.) is organized and positioned in space.
    metaphysically sufficient(explaining what arrangement of matter needs to do for mountains to exist)
    Having all the necessary ingredients or conditions to make something actually exist in reality, rather than just appearing to exist.
    metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
    On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.

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    One possible rejoinder to Williamson’s argument would be to characterize the counterintuitive claim as the claim that no suitable arrangement of matter is metaphysically sufficient for the presence of a mountain (i.e., that mountains are impossible) and there is no reason why the negation of this proposition cannot be, on more restrictive accounts of intuition, the content of an intuition. Another possible rejoinder would point out that we have extremely good grounds for believing that there are

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