The imam of the local mosque is considered a central source of religious and cultural knowledge, and is referred to for guidance on controversial matters.
4 5 12 Health systems rely on patient experiences as a central and integral source of knowledge of health issues, policy development and service planning for almost all aspects of healthcare, yet we know little of their experiences, which remain largely absent from any input into better understanding the nature of AEs.
This sort of terminology plays a number of different roles in different discourses, only some of which are philosophically interesting, and fewer of which admit of a "naturalistic" approach an approach that treats science as a central and successful (if sometimes fallible) source of knowledge about the world.
As discussed above (in section 1.1), prima facie reasons and defeaters of those reasons play a central role in contemporary epistemology, not only in relation to perceptual knowledge, but also in relation to every other source of knowledge: memory, imagination (as an indicator of possibility) and testimony, at the very least.
