 In the face of this difficulty, a defender of  RES+REU  can say the following. First, she might reject the intuition that, in the two mechanisms scenario, my imagined decision counts as a mental simulation of Frank’s decision. At a minimum, she might say that this scenario does not elicit any robust intuition in one direction or the other: it is not clear whether these two mental states stand in the relation being a mental simulation of. Second, she might downplay the role of intuitions in the construction of a definition for “mental simulation of” and cognate notions. In particular, if she conceives of ST as an empirical theory in cognitive science, she will be happy to discount the evidential value of intuitions if countervailing theoretical considerations are available. This, e.g., is Currie and Ravenscroft’s (2002) position, who write that 