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Reductionists are linked to testimony because they formulate the epistemological conditions for justified belief in testimony [1], address specific objections regarding the justification of testimonial sources [2], and propose that testimony can be treated as data to be explained through inference [3].
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Epistemological Problems of Testimony plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimReductionists have developed responses to the objections regarding children's testimony, the justification of testimony from strangers, and the difficulty of testimonial justification based on social psychology.
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.
Social Epistemology – Introduction to Philosophy - Rebus Press press.rebus.community 1 fact
claimReductionists can potentially treat experiences of testimony, communication, and social interactions as data, where the best explanation is that many individual cases of testimony are true.