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    BonJour's internalist cases show intuitions about epistemic justification are sensitive to coherence and conceptual relations, not causal-explanatory connections to the facts intuited, undermining the inductive generalization.

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    Key Terms

    BonJour(as a key philosopher in coherentism)
    Laurence BonJour is a contemporary American philosopher famous for developing and defending coherentist theories of knowledge and justification.
    Inductive generalization(a type of reasoning the statement says we can't use across worlds)
    Reaching a broad conclusion by looking at examples and patterns—like concluding 'all swans are white' because every swan you've seen was white.
    causal-explanatory connections(what the statement says internalism rejects)
    Direct cause-and-effect relationships that explain how something in the world actually makes something else happen.
    coherence(Applied uniformly by Bosanquet to both religious and non-religious truth claims.)
    The standard by which truth is assessed — a belief or system of beliefs is true insofar as it forms a consistent, internally unified whole.

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    conceptual relations(another thing internalism emphasizes)
    The logical connections between the meanings of ideas or concepts, such as how 'bachelor' is related to 'unmarried man.'
    epistemic justification(Cresto's framing of the justification condition she argues is not always necessary)
    A condition for knowledge that can be understood either in internalist or externalist terms
    internalism (internalist)(epistemological position)
    The view that what makes a belief justified depends only on things inside your mind—like your thoughts and reasoning—rather than external facts about the world.

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