Keith Lehrer illustrates a challenge to externalism using the example of Mr. Truetemp, who has a device called a 'tempucomp' implanted in his brain that provides accurate temperature readings, causing him to form spontaneous true beliefs about the temperature without knowing the source of those beliefs.

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