A primary motivation for the Transmission View is the analogy between memory and testimony, which suggests that just as one cannot acquire memorial knowledge of a proposition today without having known it previously, one cannot acquire testimonial knowledge of a proposition from a speaker who does not know it themselves.

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  Epistemological Problems of Testimony

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• testimony concept
• knowledge concept
• memory concept