On a reliabilist account (Goldman), what matters for justification is the reliability of the belief-forming process, not the subject's ability to settle evidential relations reflectively.

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Belief-forming process(epistemology): The method or mechanism by which you come to believe something, like using your senses, reasoning, or relying on what others tell you.
Evidential relations(in epistemology): The logical connections between pieces of evidence and what they support—for example, how fingerprints at a crime scene relate to proving someone was there.
Goldman (Alvin Goldman)(as a key figure in epistemology): A prominent contemporary philosopher who developed reliabilism as a major theory of how we know things and what makes our beliefs justified.
Reflectively (reflective ability)(in epistemology): Your ability to think carefully about your own reasoning and explain *why* you believe something by examining the evidence yourself.
justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge): The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.
reliabilism(epistemology): A theory holding that a belief is knowledge if it is true and if it was produced or is sustained by a reliable process that yields mostly true beliefs

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