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    It is not the case that Peirce and later externalists argue that reliable cognitive functioning does not require the agent to have conscious access to evidence of that reliability.

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    • 1.Without conscious access to reliability evidence, agents cannot distinguish genuine knowledge from lucky guesses or systematically biased beliefs.
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    • 2.Justified belief requires that the agent can, in principle, articulate why their belief-forming method is trustworthy when challenged.
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    • 3.Externalism risks making knowledge attributions depend entirely on factors beyond the agent's cognitive control, undermining responsibility and rationality.
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    • 1.Many reliable cognitive processes (perception, memory, intuition) operate unconsciously without requiring introspective access to justify their reliability.
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    • 2.Requiring conscious evidence of reliability creates an infinite regress: we'd need evidence that our evidence-evaluating process is reliable.
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    • 3.Evolution selected for reliably functioning cognition long before humans developed metacognitive awareness or epistemic justification frameworks.
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