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(1993) Synthese 94 (3).
The basic alternatives seem to be either a Humean reductionist view that any particular assertion needs backing with inductive evidence for its reliability before it can retionally be believed, or a Reidian criterial view that testimony is intrinscially, though defeasibly, credible, in the absence of evidence against its reliability.
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DOI: 10.1007/BF01064488
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Stevenson, L. (1993). Why believe what people say?. Synthese 94 (3), pp. 429-451.
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