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    It is not the case that A view that grounds justification solely in internal mental states satisfies the core internalist constraint, even if it retains a reliability condition.

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    • 1.Reliability conditions fundamentally depend on external world facts about whether processes actually produce true beliefs, not internal mental states.
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    • 2.A brain-in-vat with internally identical states but no reliable connection to reality cannot satisfy reliability conditions, violating externalist requirements.
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    • 3.Adding reliability conditions as a constraint abandons the core internalist commitment that justification requires only what the subject can access internally.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Internalism requires justification to supervene on internal mental states; reliability conditions can be satisfied internally via cognitive processes.
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    • 2.A belief's justificatory status depends on the subject's introspectively accessible reasons, independent of external causal histories.
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    • 3.Internal reliability (consistent rational processing) preserves the internalist insight that justification is accessible from the subject's perspective.
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