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"Given a knockdown argument for an intuitively unacceptable conclusion, one should assume there is probably something wrong with the argument that one cannot detect," Nagel wrote in 1979.

This is intuitively unacceptable.

One set of other objections try to show that, given the theory's criterion for selecting rules, there are conditions under which it selects intuitively unacceptable rules.

BonJour considers this to be "an intuitively unacceptable result," because after all, "what is the supposed state of knowledge really worth, if even the simplest inference from two pieces of knowledge [might] not lead to further knowledge?" (BonJour 2010: 63).

In general, if the success of any given set of standards S is gauged on its own terms, i.e., by using S-standards, several self-supporting but intuitively unacceptable sets of standards count as successful.

If we could show that K = I, then we could show that KK = IK, whence KK = K would be a theorem of λ, along with many other equations that strike us as intuitively unacceptable.

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"He helped make it the orthodox conservative position that McCain was utterly unacceptable and also that Bush was fine, neither of which were intuitively obvious if you're a conservative".

We always worked intuitively".

Voters understand that intuitively.

Intuitively, this makes sense.

We know this intuitively.

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