STUDY OF TESTIMONY & REASON
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In the study of philosophy, testimony is considered as the intentional transfer of a belief from one person to another. Generally, this transfer can be verbal, written, or signaled in some way. Testimony enables the transmission of current news, information (or misinformation), opinion and gossip throughout a community with a shared language. Also, it enables the conservation and passing on of our accumulated heritage of knowledge and belief. Issues concerning the epistemology of testimony have become increasingly discussed in contemporary philosophy, with the debate broadening out from epistemology to other fields such as philosophy of mind, action theory, and philosophy of language. Philosophical Issues About Testimony Along with vision, memory, inference, and intuition, testimony is of particular relevance as a source of individual human knowledge. As a result, the key organizational challenge for explanatory philosophical theorizing regarding testimony is obtaining an accurate expl...