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    Requiring awareness of probabilistic connections conflate... — Carmelics
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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.

    Requiring awareness of probabilistic connections conflates the conditions for justification with the conditions for knowing that one is justified.

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    • 1.A belief can be justified by reliable processes even if the believer cannot articulate or recognize those probabilistic connections.
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    • 2.Requiring awareness of justifying conditions sets an impossibly high epistemic standard that disqualifies most ordinary knowledge.
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    • 3.Justification is about the objective reliability of belief-formation; meta-awareness is a separate epistemic achievement.
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    • 1.Without some access to why a belief is probably true, we cannot distinguish justified belief from lucky true opinion.
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    • 2.Probabilistic awareness need not be explicit—implicit recognition of evidential connections suffices for justification.
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    • 3.The distinction between justification and meta-justification itself requires some level of cognitive sensitivity to reasons.
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