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Full Idea
Conceptual analysts generally regard intuitive judgements about particular cases as being far more diagnostic than intuitive judgements about general principles.
Gist of Idea
Conceptual analysts trust particular intuitions much more than general ones
Source
Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 02.4 n7)
Book Ref
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.16
A Reaction
Since I take the aim to be the building up an accurate picture about general truths, it would be daft to just leap to our intuitions about those general truths. Equally you can't cut intuition out of the picture (pace Ladyman).