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    It is not the case that Reliabilist epistemology (Goldman 1979) holds that a belief constitutes knowledge when produced by a reliable cognitive process, regardless of the agent's access to that reliability.

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    • 1.A belief from a reliable process can lack justification if the agent has defeating evidence they ignore—reliability alone seems insufficient.
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    • 2.Defining 'reliable cognitive process' requires circularity: we identify processes as reliable by checking if they produce knowledge, which assumes the theory.
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    • 3.Reliabilism cannot distinguish knowledge from lucky true belief when a reliable process produces truth by accident in that particular instance.
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    • 1.Knowledge requires truth-conduciveness; reliable processes produce true beliefs at high frequency, making them necessary for knowledge.
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    • 2.Internalism wrongly demands conscious access to justification, but we know things through perception and memory without introspective awareness.
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    • 3.Reliabilism explains why expert intuitions (doctors diagnosing disease) constitute knowledge despite inability to articulate their reasoning process.
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