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    It is not the case that Peter Davies and Paul Dretske's reliabilist frameworks ground justification in truth-conducive processes, not in the structural relationship between conditions (i), (ii), and (iii+).

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    • 1.Reliabilism struggles with generality problem: which process type counts as 'the' process matters structurally, not just whether it's reliable.
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    • 2.Structural conditions capture what makes justification internal to the subject; pure reliabilism makes justification depend on external statistical facts.
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    • 3.A belief from an unreliable process can be justified if it meets structural conditions (warrant, truth-connection, defeasibility); process alone is insufficient.
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    • 1.Justification requires beliefs track truth; only reliable processes causally connect beliefs to facts, making them fundamental to epistemic status.
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    • 2.Structural conditions alone cannot explain why a belief is justified without reference to how it was actually produced and its success rate.
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    • 3.Gettier cases show that satisfying structural conditions (true belief + some condition) fails; reliabilism avoids this by focusing on process quality.
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