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    It is not the case that Knowledge requires not merely true belief produced by a reliable process, but that the knower be appropriately connected to the grounds of that reliability (Greco's agent reliabilism).

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    • 1.The 'appropriate connection' requirement is vague and adds unexplained epistemic conditions beyond reliability itself, making it ad hoc.
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    • 2.Many clear cases of knowledge (perceptual beliefs, mathematical intuitions) don't require conscious awareness of or connection to underlying reliability.
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    • 3.If knowers must understand their reliable processes to count as knowing, this seems to conflate knowledge with higher-order knowledge or metacognition.
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    • 1.Blind belief from reliable processes (e.g., reading tea leaves that happen to work) lacks the reflective understanding that constitutes genuine knowledge.
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    • 2.Knowledge requires knowers to be epistemically responsible, which demands awareness of and connection to why their belief-forming methods succeed.
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    • 3.Agent reliabilism explains our intuition that a brain-in-vat with identical reliable processes lacks knowledge that an embodied agent possesses.
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