Is Testimonial Knowledge Second-Hand Knowledge?
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Second-Hand Knowledge*
1 . The Importance of Testimony We citizens of the 2lSt century live in a world where division of epistemic labour rules. Most of what we know we learned from the spoken or written word of others, and we depend in endless practical ways on the technological fruits of the dispersed knowledge of others-of which we often know almost nothing-in virtually every moment of our lives. Interest has been...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Erkenntnis
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0165-0106,1572-8420
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-015-9774-6