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Even though the knowledge that subtly guides our patterns of acceptance of testimony is obtained prior to the testimonial setting, it is clearly not knowledge a priori knowledge not dependent on experience.
We aren't compelled to count as knowledge every "casual, unreflective acceptance of testimony" (Riggs 2009, 214).
The acceptance of testimony resides in other familiar empirical and a posteriori sources notably perception, memory, and induction.
The inference involves no explicitly normative notion, yet it yields the same pattern of virtually automatic acceptance of testimony in normal settings.
Our typical acceptance of testimony does not rest only on the word of a speaker alone, who we cannot check on and who is capable of unreliability and insincerity.
But its application to the acceptance of testimony requires an account of the relation of degrees of belief to full or all-out beliefs, if speakers typically enter unqualified assertions and hearers typically accept them as stated.
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Ms. Brooks made no comment, but her lawyer, Stephen E. Kaufman, said, "I think both sides would concede that a successful prosecution depended on the jury's acceptance of her testimony beyond a reasonable doubt, which they did".
If acceptance of current testimony is based on enumerative induction over past acceptances, the induction requires verification of the assertions that hearers' accept.
judicial acceptance of scientific expert testimony, policy science acceptance of conflicting scientific evidence, aggregation of informed beliefs, choices justified by theoretical principles, and probabilistic causation based on Bayesian reasoning.
The split verdict, one juror said, apparently reflected acceptance of some of Mr. Sakai's testimony, a wide-ranging account of conspiracy by police assassins who coveted his private security business.
2. Mr Lin Chao -Chen a parent from Taiwan will be sharing his heart-warming testimony on "Parental Acceptance of Disability" at Elim Chinese Church Hall, Jalan Chung Thye Ping, Ipoh on 4 June 2014, 8 pm – 10 pm.
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