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    Challenges→A successful argument for selective skepticism regarding intuitions must not equally apply to many other sources of putatively justified belief.

    Therefore, a skeptical argument can apply exclusively to intuitions without collateral damage to other epistemic sources, satisfying selectivity without the parity constraint the claim imposes.

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    Collateral damage(as used in epistemology)
    Unintended harmful side effects that happen as a result of something else—here, meaning when attacking one source of knowledge accidentally undermines others.
    Epistemic sources(as used in epistemology)
    The different ways we gain knowledge or justified beliefs, such as through our senses, reason, memory, or intuition.
    Parity constraint(as used in epistemology)
    A requirement that if you apply the same criticism to one thing, you must apply it equally to similar things—you can't treat them differently without good reason.
    Skeptical argument(describes the type of argument being discussed)
    A line of reasoning that challenges whether we can actually know or be justified in believing something, even if it seems obvious.
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    (Chudnoff's account of intuitions as the basis of a priori justification)
    Intellectual perceptions that sometimes reveal abstract reality, possessing a presentational phenomenology that can be evoked through imagination, reflection, or reasoning
    selectivity(Cognitive or information-processing context distinguishing competitive selection from capacity-limited filtering)
    The capacity of a mechanism to select among multiple candidates, here achieved through competition rather than processing bottlenecks.

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