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    It is not the case that The human intellect can perceive the nature of reality through purely intellectual perception, independent of the senses.

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    • 1.All concepts, including abstract ones, are derived from or structured by prior sensory and bodily experience (Aristotle, De Anima; Locke, Essay II.i).
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    • 2.Descartes' own 'innate' ideas (extension, duration, number) correspond structurally to categories abstracted from repeated sensory encounter.
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    • 3.If the intellect's content is traceable to sensory origins, its apparent independence is a retrospective rationalization, not a genuine faculty.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant demonstrated in the Critique of Pure Reason that pure intellect without sensory intuition produces empty concepts incapable of yielding knowledge of objects.
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    • 2.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.The senses do not reveal the natures of substances.
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    • 2.Fundamental truths of metaphysics require withdrawing the mind from the senses.
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    • 3.Innate ideas of the essences of things (mind, matter, God) are accessible to the intellect directly.
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