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GAW, it’s hard to say. Don’t forget, I’m trying to justify a T”T, not express my own viewpoint (as I think my rebbeim would say, IOW, mesorah).
I think my best guess would be to say that it’s like asking what would R’ Akiva would hold if he were R’ Meir, regarding “chosh’shin l’miut’a” (or any two members of Chaza’l, on any issue in Sha’s). You can’t. HKB”H wanted R’ Akiva to be R’ Akiva, and R’ Meir to be R’ Meir, including their life experiences. If you hold that their opinions were influenced by their experiences (even without personal negius), it’s the same as the influence that each one’s t’chunas hanefesh had on their opinions. They each used their own t’chunas hanefesh, and, according to the T’T, life experience, to influence their opinions which were based on knowledge and absorption of kol haTorah kulah, with a heavy dose of siyata dishmaya (or ruach hakodesh, if you will).