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reductionism (testimonial)

The view that some person S1 is justified in believing some S2’s testimony that p, if and only if, (a) S1 receives S2’s testimony that p, (b) S1 has inductive evidence based on observation that S2’s testimony that p is reliable, and (c) p is not defeated by other evidence S1 has.

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