Alvin Plantinga illustrates the 'basic way' of forming beliefs via testimony with the example of a five-year-old child accepting their father's statement about Australia's size without performing an inductive check on the father's reliability.

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  Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• testimony concept
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• Alvin Plantinga entity