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Audi on Testimony
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This chapter addresses Audi's work on testimony, focusing on two theses: the thesis that testimony-based knowledge requires the attester to have knowledge, and the thesis that a knowledgeable attester and the absence of defeaters are jointly sufficient for testimonybased knowledge. It argues that Audi is not entitled to accept the first thesis-in particular, that his supporting reliabilist argument does not succeed. Moreover, the chapter argues that given Audi's account of testimony, he can g...
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- Oxford University Press
- Host title:
- Rationality and the Good: Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi
- Publication date:
- 2007-09-01
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- ISBN:
- 9780195311952
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- 2007
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