Abstract

We are grateful to Paul S. Appelbaum and Wayne Martin for their thoughtful remarks on our paper. Among the various aspects that we might address and refute in return, we have decided to focus on just two issues that we believe have potential to advance the debate. According to Appelbaum, the “assessment of an intuitive process is being predicated on a patient having the ability to reflect on determinants of which he may be completely unaware.” In this passage, he points to an apparently “self-evident paradox.” Also, Martin is skeptical about the assessment of intuitive reasoning ability. We agree that relying entirely on unarticulated gut feelings is problematic in terms of...