Nancy Hartsock introduced the notion of standpoint epistemology in 1983, which posits that socially marginalized people who engage in political activism are especially likely to acquire knowledge of the conditions of their marginalization, making their testimony valuable.

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  Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

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• Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu MIT Press via serper

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• testimony concept
• knowledge concept