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    Supports→Objective immunity to doubt (condition 3) does not bring a belief closer to certainty if the warrant for that belief is only moderately good.

    A guardian angel bypassing the subject's cognitive faculties does not improve the reliability or proper functioning of those faculties themselves.

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    • 1.Reliability of faculties requires their exercise and calibration through experience, not external intervention bypassing them.
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    • 2.Guardian angel intervention treats symptoms (wrong outcomes) rather than causes (defective reasoning processes themselves).
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    • 3.Proper functioning means faculties work correctly on their own; dependence on bypassing them indicates they remain dysfunctional.
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    • 1.Outcome reliability matters more than process purity; if results are correct, functional status of faculties becomes secondary.
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    • 2.Bypassing flawed faculties can provide corrective feedback that actually improves those faculties through subsequent reflection.
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    • 3.Many reliable systems use external checks on primary mechanisms; this doesn't make primary mechanisms unreliable or improperly functioning.
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