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    • 1.Foundationalist epistemology (Chisholm, Plantinga) holds that basic beliefs are justified non-inferentially through proper function or self-evidence.
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    • 2.Mathematical and color beliefs exhibit the hallmarks of basic beliefs: they are immediate, non-derived, and self-presenting in Chisholm's technical sense.
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    • 3.If basic beliefs are justified without inference, then IBE cannot be a universal requirement for justified belief.
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    • 1.Reliabilist accounts (Goldman) ground justification in reliable cognitive processes, not inferential structure—a belief is justified if produced by a reliable faculty.
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    • 2.Color perception and mathematical intuition are cognitively reliable processes that yield justified beliefs without requiring the agent to perform any explanatory inference.
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    • 1.Beliefs about mathematics do not appear to be grounded in inference to the best explanation, yet such beliefs still seem justified
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    • 2.Beliefs about colors do not appear to be grounded in inference to the best explanation, yet such beliefs still seem justified
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    This argument can be countered in two ways. First, one could deny that justified belief must always involve inference to the best explanation. It is not clear, for example, that beliefs about mathematics or colors are or must be grounded in this way, although such beliefs still seem justified. (Compare Harman 1977 on mathematics and color.)
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