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    It is not the case that Safety conditions derived from modal epistemology, as developed by Sosa and Pritchard, require sensitivity to nearby possible worlds, but legal verdicts are institutional acts, not individual beliefs, and the modal framework does not straightforwardly transfer.

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    • 1.Institutional acts are performed by individuals (judges, juries) whose beliefs remain epistemically subject to modal constraints.
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    • 2.If legal verdicts should track truth about guilt or liability, they inherit the sensitivity requirements that attach to true beliefs.
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    • 3.The fact that institutions aggregate decisions doesn't exempt them from foundational epistemology any more than group testimony does.
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    • 1.Legal verdicts bind institutions and affect real-world consequences, requiring epistemic standards beyond individual belief justification.
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    • 2.Modal sensitivity applies to agents' mental states, but legal systems are collective decision-procedures with distinct normative constraints.
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    • 3.Courts operate under procedural rules and precedent that don't track counterfactual scenarios the way individual knowledge does.
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