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Testimony is related to justified belief because it is analyzed as a source of knowledge and justified belief in the disjunctive account [1], and reductionist theories specifically define the conditions under which a hearer's belief in testimony becomes justified [2].
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claimThe disjunctive account of testimony captures both the intentional act performed by a speaker and the sense in which testimony serves as a source of knowledge and justified belief regardless of the speaker's original intent.
claimReductionists define the condition for justified belief in testimony as follows: a hearer is justified in believing a speaker if and only if the hearer has positive reasons to believe the testimony is reliable (where these reasons are not based on testimony) and the hearer possesses no undefeated defeaters indicating the testimony is false or unlikely to be true.