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    It is not the case that The evidential basis of a partial belief is already encoded in its probabilistic relations to other credences, making a separate evidence-type condition formally redundant.

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    • 1.Two agents with identical credence structures can rationally differ if one's beliefs track reliable evidence and the other's don't.
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    • 2.Gettier-style cases show that coherent probability assignments can fail epistemic norms when the belief's evidential pedigree is defective.
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    • 3.Formal redundancy (derivability) doesn't entail explanatory or normative redundancy—evidential genealogy grounds the justification relation itself.
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    • 1.A credence's rational constraints are fully determined by coherence requirements (avoiding Dutch books and dominance violations).
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    • 2.The causal origin of a belief is epistemically inert if it produces the same probabilistic relationships as alternative sources would.
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    • 3.Specifying evidence-type separately requires unmotivated additional structure beyond what probability theory formally requires.
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