I think that there are a lot of cases that we would say there was belief formation on the basis of intuition such that, were we to learn that a certain causal story was true - we’d say it was perception.

Example:

C onsider a case of someone coming to form a moral belief on the basis of a moral intuition about a particular act token that they observe. It just seems to them that the burning of the cat is wrong.

Suppose there really are moral properties that cause us to have inclinations to believe moral propositions, perhaps via a feeling of disgust or whatever…

If it really turned out that this was how the belief was formed, it seems to me that this would obviously be a case of experience.

The only reason I think we call it intuition (as opposed to perception/experience) is that we are not sure what the source of the inclination is.

So why talk about this:

OPTION ONE: Someone arguing against you might say….that’s how we demarcate experience from intuition…by whether or not a certain background causal story is true such that the phenomenal sensations are caused by the facts in the appropriate way…

OPTION TWO: We say that the causal story is actually not relevant to whether or not it’s an experience. If it’s not relevant, then the distinction between an intuition and an experience doesn’t make much sense to me either.

So it seems to me like it might be an open question in any case of intuition something very much like perception is occuring (because it’s open question whether or not there is a causal story like the one I just told is true).

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