Testimonial Evidence

Ross, James F.

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“…Knowledge gained through trust in testimony is always and necessarily second-hand knowledge. As entailed by the account of telling developed above, a trusting hearer gains knowledge from what she is told only if the teller speaks from his knowledge.27 This being so, it seems that telling and testimony more broadly, like 26 27 See Audi (2006), Burge (1993), Ross (1975), Welboume (1986) Lackey (1999 argues that one can acquire knowledge that P from testimony that P, even though the testifier does not know that P. I agree with her. My Pinocchio case is precisely such a case, and I describe others in the next section.…”

Section: Knowledge At Second-handmentioning

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Second-Hand Knowledge*

Fricker

2006

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

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Some early landmarks in the recent literature are Coady (1992), Matilal and Chakrabarti (1994). Welbourne (1986). ELIZABETH FRICKERTestimony, that is communication of knowledge, through the hearer's trust in what the speaker presents as being so, can occur also when a shared language is not used literally, and when the language of the message is not fully understood by both parties-successful uptake of the intended message can still be achieved, and the same commitment to its truth incurred by the speaker. There are also non-linguistic Gricean acts which successfully communicate a message, which certainly share some features of testimony

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Section: Knowledge At Second-handmentioning

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Second-Hand Knowledge*

Fricker

2006

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

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“…Later, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Books I-XIV, [54], introduced "the first principle of all things" and sets the course of inquiry into What is a thing? Here Aristotle diverged from Plato's view of reality as Forms, existing outside the physical world.…”

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Knowing versus understanding: adjusting the contextual lens in safety science

McCall

2020

MATEC Web Conf.

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Preparing for the unknown safety threat requires new ways of studying safety in today’s highly complex and dynamic environment. Qualitative inquiry offers advantages to expand the contextual lens in safety science by broadening understanding of the environment and conditions people negotiate in normal day-to-day operations. Through the narrative accounts of those with first-hand experience qualitative researchers seek to narrow the gap between work-as-done and work-as-imagined. It is through their individual experience, when analyzed collectively, that a greater context emerges. To aid in determining which research method is best for investigating safety phenomenon, this paper offers an overview of the philosophical underpinnings of qualitative research as well as recent examples from aviation, maritime, and mining.

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“…5 5 Sosa (1991, 219). For views of the nature of testimony with various additional restrictions, see Ross (1975), Coady (1992), Graham (1997), and Lackey (2006b). …”

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Knowing from Testimony

Lackey

2006

Philosophy Compass

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Testimony is a vital and ubiquitous source of knowledge. Were we to refrain from accepting the testimony of others, our lives would be impoverished in startling and debilitating ways. Despite the vital role that testimony occupies in our epistemic lives, traditional epistemological theories have focused primarily on other sources, such as sense perception, memory, and reason, with relatively little attention devoted specifically to testimony. In recent years, however, the epistemic significance of testimony has been more fully appreciated. I shall here focus on two questions that have received the most attention in recent work in the epistemology of testimony. First, is testimonial knowledge acquired only by being transmitted from speaker to hearer? Second, must a hearer have positive reasons to justifiedly accept a speaker's testimony?

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Testimonial Evidence

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Knowing versus understanding: adjusting the contextual lens in safety science

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