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Any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable processSee Also: reliabilist
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Reliabilism — Reliabilism, a category of theories in the philosophical discipline of epistemology, has been advanced both as a theory of knowledge and of justified belief (as well as other varieties of so called positive epistemic status). Process reliabilism… … Wikipedia
reliabilism — The view in epistemology that follows the suggestion that a subject may know a proposition p if (i) p is true; (ii) the subject believes p ; and (iii) the belief that p is the result of some reliable process of belief formation. The third clause… … Philosophy dictionary
Reliabilism — in epistemology, the claim that the status of a belief as knowledge should be judged by whether it was arrived upon through a reliable method. For instance, scientific experiment may be considered a more reliable method than intuition or… … Mini philosophy glossary
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