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  • noun Plural form of reliabilist.

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Examples

  • If this is right, then this opens up the possibility that agent-reliabilists can evade the value problem that Zagzebski identifies for pure reliabilists.

    The Value of Knowledge Pritchard, Duncan 2007

  • Therefore, reliabilists reject mentalist internalism.

    Epistemology Steup, Matthias 2005

  • Many reliabilists, too, would say that the experiences mentioned in the previous paragraph matter.

    Epistemology Steup, Matthias 2005

  • (If reliabilists admit that there are epistemic support facts, then they too must account for their status.)

    Naturalized Epistemology Feldman, Richard 2001

  • So expressed, the moral of the problem seems to be that where reliabilists go awry is by treating the value of the process as being solely captured by the reliability of the process ” i.e., its tendency to produce the desired effect.

    The Value of Knowledge Pritchard, Duncan 2007

  • However, in response to such examples, reliabilists typically seek to accommodate the intuition that such a subject is not justified in maintaining her reliably-arrived-at beliefs in the face of her evidence, and they seek to modify the simple reliabilist account to allow for this (See, e.g.,

    Evidence Kelly, Thomas 2006

  • Hence reliabilists reject access internalism as well. [

    Epistemology Steup, Matthias 2005

  • For example, if reliability could suitably be indexed to the subject's environment, reliabilists could say that Henry's belief is not justified because in his environment, vision is not reliable when it comes to discerning barns from barn-facades. [

    Epistemology Steup, Matthias 2005

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