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    Supports→Knowledge should not be expected to require reliability

    If reliability cannot survive Gettier-style counterexamples, it is not a genuine requirement of knowledge but merely a contingent correlate.

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    • 1.Gettier cases show reliable processes can produce false beliefs, proving reliability alone doesn't constitute knowledge.
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    • 2.Essential features of knowledge must survive all counterexamples; contingent correlates can fail in edge cases.
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    • 3.If reliability were genuinely required, Gettier subjects with reliable faculties wouldn't lack knowledge in those cases.
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    • 1.Gettier cases may reveal defects in reliability theories rather than prove reliability isn't essential to knowledge.
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    • 2.Many genuine requirements fail in edge cases; surviving counterexamples is too stringent a criterion for essentiality.
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    • 3.Reliability could be necessary for knowledge even if reliabilist definitions need refinement to handle Gettier problems.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
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