The optometrist thought experiment serves as an objection to the Inheritance View by illustrating that a hearer's belief can be rendered irrational by a defeater—such as a doctor's warning about unreliable vision—even if the belief is true and the speaker's faculties are functioning reliably.

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  Epistemological Problems of Testimony

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• testimonial justification concept
• Inheritance View concept