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    It is not the case that Evidential relations require the relata to be assessable as correct or incorrect by the same cognitive subject bearing the belief.

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    • 1.Evidence can justify belief even if the subject cannot personally assess correctness—e.g., trusting expert testimony on quantum mechanics.
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    • 2.The claim conflates epistemic justification with subjective comprehension; unconscious processing provides evidence the subject cannot assess.
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    • 3.Mathematical truths are objectively correct/incorrect independent of any subject's cognitive capacity to evaluate them, yet serve as evidence.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Evidence must be intelligible to the believer; if they cannot assess correctness, the relation isn't genuinely evidential for them.
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    • 2.Justification requires the subject to grasp why a belief is warranted, which demands their cognitive capacity to evaluate truth-conditions.
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    • 3.Third-person evidence inaccessible to the subject cannot rationally guide their belief-formation, so it fails as evidence for them.
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