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    Challenges→Merely having a probability relation between noninferential evidence and an inferred proposition is not sufficient for inferential justification; one must also be aware of that probabilistic connection.

    Reliabilist accounts (Goldman 1979) hold that justification is constituted by reliable belief-forming processes, not by the subject's awareness of those processes.

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    • 1.Justified beliefs from reliable processes (perceptual systems, logical reasoning) track truth better than those lacking such processes.
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    • 2.A person can be justified via reliable cognition even when unaware of the process, as with unconscious pattern recognition in expertise.
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    • 3.Justification should depend on objective features of belief-formation, not subjective conviction, to avoid self-deception.
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    • 1.Justification intuitively requires the subject's rational access to reasons, not merely that good-making features exist unbeknownst to them.
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    • 2.A belief formed by a statistically reliable process can be unjustified if the subject has defeating evidence they've ignored or overlooked.
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    • 3.Reliabilism conflates justification with reliability: a stopped clock is reliable twice daily but doesn't justify believing its time.
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