A reliabilist account depicts knowledge as the state needed to avoid
acquiring erroneous beliefs. Certainty, or any subjective justification,
is not required since reliable processes may not be conscious ones. By
this account, inductive inferences are reliable because people have used
induction to arrive at true conclusions. Although this argument itself
uses induction, it can be considered reliable as long as there is no
reason to distrust it. This form of argument can be used generally
against skepticism since certainty is not required under
reliabilism.
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