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    It is not the case that Safety is an externalist condition on knowledge in the state sense.

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    • 1.Safety is properly understood as a modal condition on the subject's belief-forming method, not on external environmental facts.
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    • 2.A condition is externalist only if its satisfaction is inaccessible in principle to the subject's reflective awareness.
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    • 3.The safety of a belief-forming method can be assessed through a priori reflection on the method's reliability across close possible worlds.
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    • 1.Sosa's virtue epistemology grounds safety in the exercise of a cognitive faculty, which is an internal dispositional property of the knower.
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    • 2.If the relevant truthmakers for safety counterfactuals are internal cognitive dispositions, safety conditions are internalist in the state sense.
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    • 1.The truth of the counterfactuals that define safety depends on features outside the subject.
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    • 2.Conditions that depend on features outside the subject are externalist in the state sense.
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