# Testing Philosophical Intuitions Through Vignettes, Statistics, and Corpus Data **Artwork**: **Artist**: Arnaud Quercy **Asset**: IDS-RNI0007 **Serial**: NAN-RDG000008 This SEP entry is a scholarly survey of experimental philosophy as a research methodology (vignette studies, corpus analysis, statistical inference, debates over the evidential value of intuitions), and the ideamorphist vocabulary of emitter, ouverture, codex, and diffraction has no purchase on this material — it is not describing an artistic emission being received, but a scientific practice of testing empirical assumptions about concepts and judgments. ## Context ### Declined — `no-purchase` [@source] ### Propositional grid [@p31] > **Read this grid.** “Not evaluated” does **not** mean the source has nothing to say about that proposition. It means **the reading did not instruct it**. That is not a result, and it counts in no denominator. A silence, by contrast, is a finding: the reading touched the proposition without concluding, or noted its absence itself. **Not evaluated (37)** — P1, P2, P3, P3a, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, P11, P12, P13, P14, P14a, P14b, P15, P16, P16a, P17, P18, P18a, P19, P19a, P20, P21, P22, P23, P24, P25, P26, P27, P28, P29, P30, P31 --- *Overall verdict: **DECLINED:no-purchase** — taxonomy of the August 2026 pass, predating the move to relational verdicts. Kept as metadata: the gap between the two forms is data, not residue. This reading’s judgement is in the grid above.* Reading of 2026-04-09 · model `claude-sonnet-5` · source 172,541 chars · 1 attempt(s) --- ### First pass — kept as written *Reading produced by the T50 RSS pass, before the boundary lens. It is reproduced UNCORRECTED. Keeping it is the point: without it, a changed title is just a changed title — with it, what the second pass refused becomes legible.* **Title it carried :** « Experimental Philosophy and Śāntarakṣita: Ideamorphic Perspectives on Cognition and Ontology » > This entry on experimental philosophy illuminates the ideamorphic concept of the 'ouverture' - the perceptual and cognitive framing that shapes how ideas are received and transformed. Experimental philosophy examines how people's intuitions and judgments about philosophical questions can vary based on factors like cultural background, emotional state, and contextual cues. This speaks directly to the ideamorphic view that an idea is not simply 'expressed' but rather undergoes diffraction as it passes through different 'ouvertures'. The entry's discussion of how experimental methods can reveal the contingency of philosophical intuitions resonates with the ideamorphic emphasis on generative loss and the rejection of the myth of expression. T50 RSS assessment · 2026-04-09 · remplacée par `boundary-lens-2026-08`