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Epistemological Problems of Testimony plato.stanford.edu Apr 1, 2021 7 facts
claimReductionists are Individualists because they maintain that testimonial justification consists in an inference made by the hearer, specifically inferring that a claim is true based on the speaker's utterance.
claimReductionists in social epistemology are divided into two camps: Global Reductionists and Local Reductionists, based on their disagreement over how the thesis of Positive Reasons should be understood.
claimReductionists have developed responses to the objections regarding children's testimony, the justification of testimony from strangers, and the difficulty of testimonial justification based on social psychology.
claimReductionists argue that testimonial justification depends entirely on features related to the hearer, such as the hearer's perception of the speaker, the hearer's memory of testimony reliability, and the hearer's inference that the speaker's statement is likely true.
claimReductionists argue that to acquire testimonial justification, a hearer must possess positive reasons to believe that the speaker is a reliable testifier.
claimReductionists define the condition for justified belief in testimony as follows: a hearer is justified in believing a speaker if and only if the hearer has positive reasons to believe the testimony is reliable (where these reasons are not based on testimony) and the hearer possesses no undefeated defeaters indicating the testimony is false or unlikely to be true.
claimReductionists argue that a hearer's testimonial-based belief is justified by evidence derived from the hearer's own inferences, specifically the inference from the premise that the speaker said that p to the conclusion that p is true.
Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 2 facts
claimTomoji Shogenji argues that reductionists justifying trust in testimony cannot cite other people's perception and memory, but only the epistemic subject's own perception and memory.
perspectiveReductionists hold that the beliefs children form during their credulous phase are justified only in a pragmatic sense, rather than an epistemic sense.
Social Epistemology – Introduction to Philosophy - Rebus Press press.rebus.community 1 fact
claimReductionists can potentially treat experiences of testimony, communication, and social interactions as data, where the best explanation is that many individual cases of testimony are true.