The reductionist view of testimony asserts that a person S1 is justified in believing a person S2's testimony that p if and only if S1 receives the testimony, S1 has inductive evidence based on observation that S2's testimony is reliable, and the proposition p is not defeated by other evidence S1 possesses.

Authors

• Person: William D. Rowley Organization: Rebus Community
  Social Epistemology – Introduction to Philosophy - Rebus Press

Sources

• Social Epistemology – Introduction to Philosophy - Rebus Press press.rebus.community William D. Rowley · Rebus Community via serper

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• testimony concept
• reliability concept