INTUITIONS, SIMPLICITY AND EXTRAPOLATION FROM CONCEPTS

INTUITIONS, SIMPLICITY AND EXTRAPOLATION FROM CONCEPTS

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present and defend a theory about intuitions and the justification Charcoal Grey Vase theyprovide.The theory relies on a familiar notion: having directprima faciejustificationmerely on the basis of understanding concepts.But, under the assumption that notall intuitively true propositions are so directly justified, I advance and develop anoriginal thesis about the rest of cases Metal License Plate in which someone has an intuition: when asubject has the intuition that P, she/he makes a (tipycally implicit) estimate aboutthe comparative simplicity of possible extensions of certain parts of her/his systemof beliefs.