In their rebellions against the sins of Psychologism as well as the unintelligibility of British Idealism, the English founders of Analytical philosophy created a surprisingly durable -- albeit ultimately unstable -- mixture of, on the one hand, a commitment to common sense realism and, especially, the method of intuition, with, on the other hand, a rhetorical commitment to science exemplified by the modern quantificational logic.
My former colleague, José Luis Bermúdez intuits, that we are nearing the final curtain of the movement: "As experimental evidence mounts that intuitions are highly variable and context-bound, perhaps they will slowly disappear from philosophical argument. I personally would be very happy with that. But I imagine that the growing industry of experimental philosophers would not appreciate being part of the ladder as it is kicked away!"
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