It is possible, as experimental philosophers appear to have shown regarding intuitions about other prominent philosophical thought experiments, that externalist intuitions are a culturally local product.
Both actors had a very instinctive understanding of what Rachel had written – with delicate direction, they showed real intuition about who these women were and how to portray them.
Lippold's "Full Moon" (1949 50) and "Sun" (1953 56; commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, to hang in its room of Persian carpets) show an intuition of a basic regularity, precise order, and completeness that underlies the universe.
His career highs in terms of box-office hits and critical acclaim arrived in the shape of Speed and The Matrix, both of them roles in which an ordinary American surpasses and surprises himself by showing guile, intuition and fleet-footedness.
(See Sosa 1998: 258 59, for an example about heaps and Bealer 1998: 202, where he argues that philosophical paradoxes show that intuition is fallible.
Let us now show the intuition behind this second characterisation outcome by focusing on the largest level of consumption across the population.
But in order to dismiss thought experimenting as a useful philosophical tool one has to show that intuition cannot be a source of knowledge and that an epistemic tool should be useless because there is a serious chance it can fail.
Consistent with these two hypotheses, Nathan et al. (2014) found that experimental participants who performed directed actions that were selected for their relevancy to mathematical tasks showed improved intuition and insight, even though participants were largely unaware of their mathematical relevance or influence.
Moreover, even if it could be shown that human intuition clearly and decisively embraces some kind of coarse-grained moral mind-independence, it may be that certain theoretical versions of mind-dependence, as described by philosophers, are sufficiently devious and obscure that they do not clash with that commonsense intuition.
A third attempt to show that intuitions provide evidence relies on what we might call an outside source of evidence.
