‘All gods are homemade.’ –Aldous Huxley
For some of our beliefs, our minds don’t offer much in the way of reasons. We say these beliefs are more “intuitive.” In a hostile debating context this response can seem suspicious; you might expect one side in a debate to refuse to offer reasons just when they had already tested those reasons against criticism, and found them wanting. That is, we might expect a debater to pretend he didn’t have any reasons when he knew his reasons were bad.
