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dc.contributor.authorDellsén, Finnur Ulf
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-11T08:56:27Z
dc.date.available2022-11-11T08:56:27Z
dc.date.created2022-09-21T11:44:48Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn0031-8205
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3031326
dc.description.abstractThis paper identifies two distinct dimensions of what might be called testimonial strength: first, in the case of testimony from more than one speaker, testimony can be said to be stronger to the extent that a greater proportion of the speakers give identical testimony; second, in both single-speaker and multi-speaker testimony, testimony can be said to the stronger to the extent that each speaker expresses greater conviction in the relevant proposition. These two notions of testimonial strength have received scant attention in the philosophical literature so far, presumably because it has been thought that whatever lessons we learn from thinking about testimony as a binary phenomenon will apply mutatis mutandis to varying strengths of testimony. This paper shows that this will not work for either of the two dimensions of testimonial strength, roughly because less testimony can provide more justification in a way that can only be explained by appealing to the (non-binary) strength of the testimony itself. The paper also argues that this result undermines some influential versions of non-reductionism about testimonial justification.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjecttestimonyen_US
dc.subjectagreementen_US
dc.subjectconfidenceen_US
dc.subjectnon-reductionismen_US
dc.subjectjustificationen_US
dc.titleExcessive Testimony: When Less Is Moreen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.source.journalPhilosophy and Phenomenological Researchen_US
dc.identifier.cristin2053853
cristin.ispublishedfalse
cristin.fulltextpostprint
cristin.qualitycode2


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