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If Intuitions Must Be Evidential then Philosophy is in Big Trouble
2010
Studia Philosophica Estonica
Many philosophers claim that intuitions are evidential. Yet it is hard to see how introspecting one's mental states could provide evidence for such synthetic truths as those concerning, for example, the abstract and the counterfactual. Such considerations have sometimes been taken to lead to mentalism---the view that philosophy must concern itself only with matters of concept application or other mind-dependent topics suited to a contemplative approach---but this provides us with a poor account
doi:10.12697/spe.2009.2.2.03
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