  One way to see the import of the externalist position regarding justification is by means of examples. The case described earlier wherein one gains a great number of justified perceptual beliefs all in a short and very compressed time span seems appropriate to this purpose. Another method for getting a sense of the externalist position is by consideration of a theory of epistemic justification that is consistent with it. A simple version of the reliable process theory of justification will illustrate the point (see Goldman 1979, for a classic statement):