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In the last chapter, we saw that all JTB+X analyses are vulnerable to Gettier cases due to the fallibility of the justification condition. In this chapter, we will discuss a view called "reliabilism" where the justification condition is replaced with a condition requiring that the belief be formed by a reliable process.

Definitions
The reliabilist analysis of knowledge: A subject S knows that p if and only if
  1. p is true,
  2. S believes that p, and
  3. S’s belief that p was formed by a reliable process

where p is a proposition.

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