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    It is not the case that What sensory experience provides is at best a heuristic trigger for a priori insight, not genuine evidential warrant for the mathematical proposition itself.

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    • 1.Mathematical insight itself—even a priori—emerges from cognitive capacities shaped by embodied interaction with a structured physical world.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'triggering' insight and 'warranting' it is unclear; if sensory input is necessary for the cognitive process yielding justified belief, it provides warrant.
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    • 3.Children learn arithmetic through counting concrete objects; without this sensory foundation, the a priori insights would likely never develop.
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    • 1.Mathematical truths hold necessarily across all possible worlds, but sensory experience only reveals contingent facts about our particular world.
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    • 2.Sensory experience is fallible and varies between observers, while mathematical proofs provide certainty independent of empirical variation.
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    • 3.We can conceive of mathematics in beings without sensory organs, suggesting sensory experience is causally inessential to mathematical knowledge.
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