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    It is not the case that The truth-value of a proposition is not altered by the intellectual vigor or virtue of the cognitive process that grasped it.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.In contexts of high uncertainty, the reliability of the cognitive process partly constitutes what we should call 'true.'
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    • 2.Our access to truth-value is entirely mediated by cognitive processes; claiming independence collapses into incoherence.
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    • 3.Intellectual virtue shapes which propositions we can coherently affirm as true within rational discourse norms.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Truth is objective: propositions about reality are either true or false independent of how we arrive at them.
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    • 2.A fool can stumble upon correct answers; intellectual virtue is epistemically relevant but metaphysically irrelevant.
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    • 3.Conflating truth-value with justification confuses metaphysics with epistemology—distinct domains.
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