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    Challenges→Self-doubting defeating evidence is potentially more corrosive than typical defeating evidence.

    If a subject's cognitive faculties are in fact reliable, self-doubting higher-order evidence fails to undermine first-order justification regardless of its unresolvability.

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    • 1.Reliability of cognitive faculties is a fundamental epistemic foundation that cannot be defeated by higher-order doubts about that very foundation.
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    • 2.Unresolvable higher-order evidence does not provide rational grounds to abandon justified first-order beliefs when faculties are demonstrably reliable.
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    • 3.Allowing unresolvable doubts to undermine reliable beliefs creates a regress problem that paralyzes all justified belief, which is pragmatically untenable.
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    • 1.Mere factual reliability of faculties doesn't guarantee justification if the subject has strong, unresolved reasons to doubt their reliability in specific cases.
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    • 2.Higher-order defeaters can rationally motivate suspending judgment about first-order beliefs even when faculties are objectively reliable, absent resolution.
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    • 3.The claim conflates metaphysical reliability with epistemic justification; the former doesn't automatically transmit to the latter when doubt remains.
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