Sentence examples for accept testimony from inspiring English sources
The antiterrorism law authorizes police officers to detain suspects for up to 90 days without a trial and to accept testimony from unidentified witnesses.
One did not accept testimony from "a distracted person or of a possessed person in a case of murder, theft, felony of any sort, then neither may we do it in the case of witchcraft".
In contrast, the tribunal did accept testimony by Tom Gilmartin, a property developer, who told the tribunal that a former business partner, Owen O'Callaghan, had informed him of corrupt payments to Mr. Ahern in exchange for permit approvals for a Dublin shopping mall.
Because our tendency to accept testimony is innate, it is harder to overturn than Hume believes it to be.
The reliability of testimony could be a central, but inaccessible or not readily accessible, belief that structures how we accept testimony without representation as a simple propositional belief (but see Bergmann 2006).
But the epistemic warrant or justification for accepting testimony need not essentially appeal to these other sources.
When we inquire as to the justification or warrant for accepting testimony, we need to avoid importing evidence or information that goes beyond what is commonly available.
This is necessary to focus on the justification for accepting testimony that derives only from the norms of the conversational practice.
The 19th century saw a proliferation of satires in which Humean scruples about accepting testimony for extraordinary tales were applied to the events of secular history, with consequences that are equally disastrous and humorous.
In numerous cases well beyond the core, we are as easy in accepting testimony as for the core cases: "The Giants should have gone for the first-down, rather than punt"; "DNA is a double helix"; "Marcia is sad because Tom is on the road so much" (Weiner 2003).
To the challenge to accept ordinary testimony "Why do you believe that stranger's testimony?," a common response is: "Why shouldn't I?" That response implies that the burden is on the challenger to justify any doubts.
