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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Safety requires that false beliefs be impossible in nearby worlds, but cognitive faculties are fallible in all nearby worlds.
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    • 2.Environmental factors and luck can undermine knowledge even when faculties are exercised perfectly normally.
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    • 3.Grounding safety only in internal dispositions ignores how external world structure determines belief reliability.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Knowledge requires stable cognitive reliability that persists across counterfactual scenarios, not mere luck.
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    • 2.Internal dispositions explain why some agents reliably track truth while others fail, grounding epistemic merit.
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    • 3.Safety conditions on knowledge are best justified by appealing to the knower's own cognitive capacities.
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