Questions tagged [testimony]

[Edit: Please read the whole question, or at least the new "N.b" paragraph, that I added just now to the end of the question, before attempting to answer it.] I'm asking this because recently Conifold addressed two posts to me in the Symposium,…

Present discourse is replete with rogue actors. People publish and promote statements with no evidence or grounds, but the simple act of saying them seems to introduce the possibility of their truth into the epistemic considerations of the…