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    It is not the case that Epistemic justification is a function of the evidence available at the time of belief formation, not of subsequent suppositional revisions.

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    • 1.Evidence's justificatory power often depends on how beliefs cohere with expanding information, not isolated snapshots.
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    • 2.Subsequent counterfactual scenarios reveal whether initial evidence was genuinely strong or merely seemed compelling due to bias.
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    • 3.Scientific justification involves testing against future data; refusing to integrate it treats beliefs as sealed rather than provisional.
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    • 1.Justification must be evaluable at the time of belief; what happens later cannot retroactively alter epistemic status then.
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    • 2.Agents can only be responsible for beliefs based on accessible evidence when formed, not hypothetical future scenarios.
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    • 3.Allowing later revisions to determine justification makes epistemic evaluation dependent on contingent future facts beyond agent control.
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