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    Supports→Guessing is not a basic source of evidence, even for a person who happens to be a reliable guesser.

    A source of evidence is basic only if it would be reliable in all possible worlds when the person is in ideal cognitive conditions.

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    Bealer offers a complicated multi-stage argument for why intuitions, so understood, provide evidence. Part of his argument involves distinguishing basic from derivative sources of evidence. Some contingent sources of evidence provide justification but only because some basic source justifies their use. Perhaps perception is a basic source of evidence and testimony derivative. But what makes a source of evidence basic? For Bealer, a source of evidence is basic if and only if its deliverances have

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