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Testimony is fundamentally an epistemic interaction that requires the audience to rely on the speaker's word, thereby necessitating trust as a core component of the exchange [1]. This relationship is further supported by the Assurance View, which posits that telling involves a speaker inviting an audience to trust the truth of a proposition [2], and by arguments that trust in others is as essential to testimony as trust in oneself is to memory [3]. Additionally, the act of forming a belief based on a teller's say-so inherently involves a commitment to the teller's knowledge, which constitutes a form of trust [4].
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Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 2 facts
claimRichard Foley argues that trust in others, which is central to testimony, is no less justified than trust in oneself, which is central to memory.
quoteFricker (2006b) states: "Once a hearer forms belief that [p] on a teller T’s say-so, she is consequently committed to the proposition that T knows that [p]. But her belief about T which constitutes this trust, antecedent to her utterance, is something like this: T is such that not easily would she assert that [p], vouch for the truth of [p], unless she knew that [p]."
Epistemological Problems of Testimony plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimProponents of the Assurance View maintain that the speech act of telling is central to understanding the relationship between a speaker and their audience, as telling involves a speaker inviting their audience to trust that a proposition is true, effectively guaranteeing the truth of the proposition.
Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu 1 fact
claimTestimony is defined as an epistemic interaction where individuals communicate information to others and ask them to take their word for it, requiring trust.