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Testimony is linked to the epistemic agent because the testifier functions as an agent responsible for epistemic business [1], while the capacity to offer testimony relies on the individual's own epistemic agency [2]. Furthermore, epistemic agency is recognized as a core characterization of testimony within philosophical discourse [3].
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Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 2 facts
claimGreen (2006) suggests that a testifier acts as an epistemic agent or employee for the recipient, where the testifier takes responsibility for specific areas of epistemic business, while the recipient retains the responsibility to select the testifier properly.
perspectiveThe Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that various characterizations of testimony—such as assurance, epistemic agency, transfer of reasons, and passing the epistemic buck—are not necessarily mutually exclusive and could all be true simultaneously.
Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu 1 fact
claimGaslighting undermines a person's epistemic agency by causing the individual to doubt their own perceptual, memorial, agential, or cognitive capacities, resulting in a loss of confidence required to offer testimony.