 So what are the arguments for the two views like? Theorists who accept EP usually just assert or even assume it (we saw some examples of this in  Section 7.1).  The idea just seems intuitively plausible to its adherents and they tend not to argue for it. NEP is not intuitively obvious—even people such as Searle who advocate it can find themselves sliding into EP—and its adherents do argue for it. 