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    It is not the case that Dispositional knowledge-how and implicit procedural memory can guide reliable belief formation without any occurrent attentional episode.

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    • 1.Reliable belief formation typically requires some minimal attentional gatekeeping to distinguish veridical memory from confabulation or error.
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    • 2.Implicit procedures often produce outputs, but connecting them to knowledge-how requires occurrent recognition that performance meets epistemic standards.
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    • 3.Dispositional states remain mere capacities until activated; activation arguably constitutes an attentional episode, making the claim definitionally unclear.
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    • 1.Expert musicians play correctly without conscious attention to finger placement, suggesting procedural memory operates independently of occurrent awareness.
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    • 2.Implicit learning studies show subjects acquire reliable pattern recognition without explicit attention or conscious hypothesis formation.
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    • 3.Dispositional knowledge can be activated automatically by environmental cues, generating justified beliefs without deliberate attentional episodes.
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