reliabilism.

An approach that explains justified belief or knowledge through the reliability of the processes producing beliefs.

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Words that belong together

• process reliabilism
• epistemic reliabilism
• objections to reliabilism

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Reliabilism asks whether the process producing a belief tends to yield true beliefs.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal / analytical. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: SEP verifies reliability/truth-conduciveness of belief-forming processes; justification is distinct from infallible truth or sufficient conditions for knowledge. Writing functions: analysis, conceptual distinction.