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Full Idea
Reliability involves truth, and truth (on the usual assumption) is external.
Gist of Idea
Reliability involves truth, and truth is external
Source
Alvin I. Goldman (Internalism Exposed [1999], §6)
Book Ref
Goldman,Alvin I.: 'Pathways to Knowledge' [OUP 2002], p.17
A Reaction
As an argument for externalism this seems bogus. I am not sure that truth is either 'internal' or 'external'. How could the truth of 3+2=5 be external? Facts are mostly external, but I take truth to be a relation between internal and external.