 Once again, the charge of circularity generalizes quite nicely to other proposals that appeal to the notion of method or causal process. The general argument is that if we want to rule out accidentally true awareness from the scope of knowledge by appealing to the non-defectiveness of methods, then we need a non-circular account of epistemic defects that can be stated in knowledge-independent terms. Śrīharṣa is skeptical that such a non-circular account is available.