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    Challenges→Replacing the reflexivity condition on the accessibility relation with seriality allows doxastic models to capture belief rather than knowledge

    A relation capturing genuine belief must incorporate sensitivity to evidence, but seriality imposes no such constraint, making the resulting operator too permissive.

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    • 1.Genuine belief requires responsiveness to counterevidence; an agent ignoring refuting data doesn't truly hold that belief.
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    • 2.Serial iteration allows belief-in-belief without ever meeting evidential standards, creating infinite regress avoiding accountability.
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    • 3.Evidence-sensitivity distinguishes belief from mere stipulation or formal consistency, capturing what makes belief epistemically valuable.
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    • 1.Seriality preserves sensitivity indirectly: nested operators can encode evidence-responsiveness at higher levels of the structure.
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    • 2.Not all genuine beliefs need evidence-sensitivity equally; testimony, memory, and basic perception work without explicit verification.
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    • 3.Permissiveness isn't a flaw if it respects the wide variety of legitimate belief-formation mechanisms humans actually employ.
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