ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some reasons for taking all intuition of matters of fact to be empirical, ruling out moral and religious intuition explicitly and other conceivable forms of intuition of fact by implication. It examines the concept of intuition in general and considers one kind of argument for the existence of basic statements which sees them as a condition of factual significance rather than of justified belief. In most modern philosophy, intuition is taken to cover all non-empirical varieties of direct knowledge. The arguments for intuitive and ostensive statements are connected as well as being similar in their regressive form. The ostensive statement is given its meaning by correlation with some kind of observable state of affairs. Basic statements are the supposed axioms of the system of factual or empirical knowledge and, to be more accurate or inclusive, justified belief. The theory of basic statements is closely connected with the correspondence theory of truth.
