David Hume's reductionist perspective posits that individuals properly form beliefs based on testimony only because they have observed other confirmed instances of the veracity of human testimony, meaning testimonial justification is reducible to perceptual, memorial, and inferential justification.

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• testimony concept
• belief concept
• testimonial justification concept