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    Objective immunity to doubt (condition 3) does not bring a belief closer to certainty if the warrant for that belief is only moderately good.

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    • 1.Warrant, as Plantinga argues in 'Warrant and Proper Function', is a function of the degree to which a belief-forming faculty operates reliably and within its proper environment.
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    • 2.A guardian angel bypassing the subject's cognitive faculties does not improve the reliability or proper functioning of those faculties themselves.
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    • 3.Therefore, external elimination of defeaters leaves the internal warrant unchanged, confirming that objective immunity without strong warrant fails to constitute certainty.
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    • 1.Descartes' method of doubt establishes that certainty requires a belief be unassailable from within the epistemic perspective of the subject, not merely protected by external forces.
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    • 2.A belief shielded by external intervention remains vulnerable to the subject's own rational scrutiny and internal doubt, failing the internalist criterion for certainty.
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    • 3.Moderate warrant, however externally fortified, cannot satisfy the Cartesian standard because the subject's own reflective endorsement remains insufficiently grounded.
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    • 1.A guardian angel that removes all potential defeaters for a belief satisfies condition (3) — objective immunity to doubt.
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    • 2.The warrant for the belief remains only moderately good despite the guardian angel's intervention.
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    • 3.The work done outside the subject's belief system is irrelevant to the degree of warrant the subject possesses.
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    The second difficulty has to do with condition (3), which is supposed to secure objective immunity to doubt. Although it is undeniable that a subject for whom condition (3) is satisfied would be in a desirable situation, it does not seem to be attributable to her in the right sort of way—and, especially, not in the way that we expect certainty to be attributable to the person who is certain. To see this, suppose that my warrant for the belief that p is only moderately good. Nevertheless, my guar
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