To justify accepting a specific piece of testimony under Local Reductionism, a hearer must possess non-testimonial evidence supporting two premises: (1) the speaker made the specific statement, and (2) the speaker is generally truthful in that specific context and domain.

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  Epistemological Problems of Testimony

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• testimony concept
• Local Reductionism concept