 Let’s begin by noting that one influential criticism of reflective equilibrium is that what seem to function as intuitions are just what seem to the inquirer to be true; there is not even the pretense that these have some special status, such as self-evidence. Earlier intuitionists might be criticized for claiming propositions are self-evident when they are not. But reflective equilibrium may lead inquirers to do nothing more than build a coherent moral system around strongly held beliefs that in fact have no positive epistemic status. (We cannot pursue this criticism further but for an important early response see Daniels 1979).