Tyler Burge argues that we may ignore possible worlds where testifiers' truth-seeking faculties are not functioning properly because they are not relevant alternatives, similar to how non-skeptics ignore brain-in-a-vat scenarios.

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  Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• testimony concept
• Brain-in-a-vat argument concept
• skepticism concept
• Tyler Burge entity