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    It is not the case that A process that systematically produces responses uncorrelated with objective features cannot ground reliability in the epistemically relevant sense.

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    • 1.A process can be reliable if it has high statistical success rates, regardless of mechanistic correlation details.
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    • 2.Some reliable processes (like certain heuristics) work despite lacking transparent causal links to target features.
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    • 3.Uncorrelated responses over time might still cluster around truth by structural features independent of correlation.
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    • 1.Reliability requires a causal connection between belief-forming process and truth-conducive features of the world.
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    • 2.Uncorrelated responses cannot constitute such causal connections, only random coincidence.
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    • 3.Epistemically justified beliefs must exclude mere luck; correlation with reality is necessary for that exclusion.
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