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Full Idea
Intuitions about possibilities are the bread and butter of conceptual analysis.
Gist of Idea
Intuitions about possibilities are basic to conceptual analysis
Source
Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.3)
Book Ref
Jackson,Frank: 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' [OUP 2000], p.56
A Reaction
Hence the centrality of the debate over conceivability and possibility. Which seems to reduce to the relationship between 'intuition' and 'imagination'. Imagination is a very weak guide to what is possible, and intuition is very uncertain....