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    It is not the case that Merely having a probability relation between noninferential evidence and an inferred proposition is not sufficient for inferential justification; one must also be aware of that probabilistic connection.

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    • 1.Reliabilist accounts (Goldman 1979) hold that justification is constituted by reliable belief-forming processes, not by the subject's awareness of those processes.
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    • 2.A belief formed via a reliable probabilistic mechanism is justified even if the agent cannot articulate or access the probabilistic connection involved.
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    • 3.Requiring awareness of probabilistic connections conflates the conditions for justification with the conditions for knowing that one is justified.
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    • 1.Children and animals demonstrably form justified inductive beliefs without possessing concepts of probability or inferential relations.
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    • 2.If awareness of probabilistic connections were necessary for inferential justification, such cognitively limited believers would lack justified beliefs, which is a deeply counterintuitive result that undermines the claim's generality.
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    • 1.Classical foundationalists held that inferential justification requires more than the mere obtaining of a probability relation between premises and conclusion.
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    • 2.Awareness of or access to the probabilistic connection between premises and conclusion is required for inferential justification.
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