Critics of the Assurance View object that it is unclear how non-evidential assurances can justify a belief, specifically questioning whether a listener who is the intended recipient of an assurance is epistemically better off than an eavesdropper who hears the same testimony but was not the intended recipient.

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  Epistemological Problems of Testimony

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• testimonial justification concept
• Assurance View concept