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    Epistemic justification requires that the reasoner have r... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Rule-circularity is not vicious, unlike premise-circularity

    Epistemic justification requires that the reasoner have reflective access to what makes their inference truth-conducive, not merely that reliability obtains externally.

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    • 1.Blind reliability lacks justificatory force: a reasoner using a truth-producing method they cannot understand gains no rational confidence in their conclusions.
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    • 2.Justification involves rational ownership of one's beliefs. Externally reliable processes you're unaware of don't constitute your reasoning at all.
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    • 3.Reflective access enables error-detection and rational revision. Without it, reasoners cannot distinguish genuine insight from lucky accident.
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    • 1.Most human cognition operates outside conscious reflection yet produces knowledge: perceptual systems, linguistic competence, and intuitive physics all justify beliefs pre-reflectively.
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    • 2.Reflective access itself requires reliable cognitive processes. Requiring meta-level awareness creates infinite regress: what justifies access to what justifies access?
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    • 3.Justified true belief has historically tracked external reliability more reliably than subjective reflective certainty, which frequently deceives reasoners.
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