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Full Idea
I may have good reason to believe some testimony, for example, even though the person providing the testimony has no good reason for saying what he does.
Gist of Idea
Unsupported testimony may still be believable
Source
Kit Fine (The Varieties of Necessity [2002], 5)
Book Ref
Fine,Kit: 'Modality and Tense' [OUP 2005], p.256
A Reaction
Thus small children, madmen and dreamers may occasionally get things right without realising it. I take testimony to be merely one more batch of evidence which has to be assessed in building the most coherent picture possible.
9214 | Unsupported testimony may still be believable [Fine,K] |
9215 | Causation is easier to disrupt than logic, so metaphysics is part of nature, not vice versa [Fine,K] |
9216 | Each area of enquiry, and its source, has its own distinctive type of necessity [Fine,K] |