Still, it seems prima facie plausible that people have at best limited knowledge of the patterns of association that drive their responses on priming and other implicit measures.
Many do find it intuitive and prima facie plausible that they are acquainted with or directly aware of at least experiential states and their features, and that this direct awareness is a fundamental source of knowledge.
The particularist is apt to trust our prima facie intuitions regarding particular knowledge claims.
This requires a degree of common knowledge, but –– prima facie at least –– it does not imply, for instance, that any prescription to conform is in force in the community.
For example, the meditator (while voicing empiricist sensibilities) puts forward, as candidates for the foundations of Knowledge, such prima facie obvious claims as "that I am here, sitting by the fire, wearing a winter dressing-gown, holding this piece of paper in my hands, and so on" — particular matters "about which doubt is quite impossible," or so it would seem (AT 7 18).
Prima facie, his characterizations imply a justified belief analysis of knowledge — or in language closer to his own (and where justification is construed in terms of unshakability), an unshakable conviction analysis.
However, taking the sort of unification that Kitcher associates with causal and explanatory knowledge to characterize individual belief systems seems prima-facie psychologically unrealistic.
So it would seem that, prima facie, Spinoza cannot have held that observation can be a means to an adequate knowledge of things.
But this gives rise to a prima facie worry (which may or may not be answerable) about whether human beings could acquire knowledge of mathematical objects.
In more recent times, Gassendi would come to be seen as anticipating such notable views as Mill's proposal that mathematical knowledge is empirical, and Popper's notion that empirical falsifiability is a test of a hypothesis' prima facie viability.
