 The problem with this suggestion is that acquaintance or direct awareness doesn’t seem to be doing the crucial epistemic work. If the principle is true, why not hold some version of “phenomenal conservativism” in epistemology, the position that a propositional awareness—a seeming that x is G or an inclination to believe that x is G—is a source of defeasible justification for believing that x is G? If so, then the acquaintance or direct awareness requirement should be dropped from (2) and there would still be the justification. Here is perhaps a more promising strategy: