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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that Justification is determined by internal coherence and reliability of belief-forming processes within one's actual epistemic situation, not by comparison to logically possible alternatives.

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    • 1.A belief can be internally coherent yet systematically false if one's entire belief system rests on a false foundation—coherence alone cannot guarantee truth-tracking.
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    • 2.Skeptical scenarios (brain-in-vat, evil demon) are logically possible and our actual belief-forming processes cannot distinguish them, so ignoring such alternatives seems to beg the question against skepticism.
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    • 3.Reliability requires that a belief-forming process succeeds in actual cases, not merely that it functions well given one's current assumptions about what one can know.
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    • 1.We can only evaluate beliefs using cognitive resources and standards available to us; comparing to logically possible alternatives we cannot access is epistemically idle.
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    • 2.Reliable belief-forming processes in actual contexts produce justified beliefs regardless of how things could have been in distant possible worlds.
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    • 3.Internal coherence prevents self-undermining and circularity, which are necessary conditions for any justification within an agent's actual epistemic situation.
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