Local Reductionism posits that a hearer is justified in accepting a speaker's testimony only if the hearer possesses non-testimonial reasons to believe the speaker is reliable on that specific occasion, rather than relying on a general belief in the reliability of testimony.

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  Epistemological Problems of Testimony

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