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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reasons Against

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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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    Reason against 2 of 2
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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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