Testimony as Evidence

Philosophica 78 (2) (2006)
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Regarding testimony as evidence fails to predict the sort of epistemic support testimony provides for testimonial belief. As a result, testimony-based belief should not be assimilated into the category of epistemically inferential, evidence-based belief.

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10.21825/philosophica.82190

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