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Argument: Rationality

  1. The Superiority of Reason Thesis: The knowledge we gain in subject area S by intuition and deduction or have innately is superior to any knowledge gained by sense experience.
  2. The Indispensability of Reason Thesis: The knowledge we gain in subject area, S, by intuition and deduction, as well as the ideas and instances of knowledge in S that are innate to us, could not have been gained by us through sense experience.
  3. The Intuition/Deduction Thesis: Some propositions in a particular subject area, S, are knowable by us by intuition alone; still others are knowable by being deduced from intuited propositions.
  4. The Innate Knowledge Thesis: We have knowledge of some truths in a particular subject area, S, as part of our rational nature.
  5. The Innate Concept Thesis: We have some of the concepts we employ in a particular subject area, S, as part of our rational nature.
  6. Conclusion.

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