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The concepts are related because Tyler Burge draws a parallel between the epistemic treatment of testimony and the Brain-in-a-vat argument, suggesting that both involve ignoring irrelevant skeptical alternatives to maintain knowledge claims as described in [1].
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Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimTyler Burge argues that we may ignore possible worlds where testifiers' truth-seeking faculties are not functioning properly because they are not relevant alternatives, similar to how non-skeptics ignore brain-in-a-vat scenarios.