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    Nozick and Quine's epistemic norms require that beliefs r... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Effective behavior can be aided by inaccurate judgments or cognitively adaptive illusions

    Nozick and Quine's epistemic norms require that beliefs reliably track truth across modal environments, not merely in locally favorable conditions.

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    • 1.Nozick's tracking condition requires counterfactual reliability: if p were false, S wouldn't believe it. Local success alone cannot satisfy this.
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    • 2.Quine's naturalism demands empirical adequacy across theoretical alternatives, not just explanatory convenience in actual circumstances.
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    • 3.Knowledge requires robustness against epistemic luck. Beliefs tracking truth only locally remain vulnerable to misleading scenarios we can't rule out.
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    • 1.Nozick explicitly restricts tracking to 'nearby possible worlds,' not all modal space. Global reliability across all environments is too stringent.
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    • 2.Quine's holistic web of belief permits local empirical equivalence. His critique of analytic-synthetic distinction challenges claims about modal environments.
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    • 3.Requiring truth-tracking across all counterfactuals makes knowledge impossible: no cognitive system reliably tracks across radically alien scenarios.
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