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    Supports→An inductive argument from intuitions about particular cases of justified belief does not support [P1]

    Weinberg, Nichols, and Stich's experimental philosophy data demonstrate that intuitions about justified belief vary systematically across populations, so no stable inductive base exists from which to generalize to P1.

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    Key Terms

    Experimental philosophy(British philosophy c. 1700)
    A dominant strand of natural philosophy in England by 1700, associated with figures such as Boyle, Newton, and Locke.
    P1(Premise establishing that self-subsistent entities are not immanent in humans.)
    Nothing that is itself by itself is in humans.
    Systematically vary(as how intuitions differ across populations)
    Change in a predictable, pattern-like way depending on who you ask or what group they belong to.
    Weinberg, Nichols, and Stich(as referenced researchers)
    Three contemporary philosophers who use scientific experiments to test what people actually think about philosophy, rather than just theorizing—they're pioneers of experimental philosophy.
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    (as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    The collection of specific facts or observations you use as starting points to draw a general conclusion.
    intuitions(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
    justified belief(Coherence theory of justification)
    A belief that is part of a coherent system of beliefs

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