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    It is not the case that If non-testimonial faculties suffice to validate testimony, testimony itself contributes nothing irreducible to the production of knowledge.

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    • 1.Non-testimonial faculties cannot practically access most human knowledge (distant events, expert domains, history); testimony fills irreplaceable epistemic gaps.
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    • 2.Testimony's reliability depends on speaker credibility and social-epistemic practices—factors that cannot be reduced to individual non-testimonial faculties alone.
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    • 3.Knowledge from testimony involves trusting another's cognitive labor; this trust-based justification is epistemically distinct from replicating their investigation.
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    • 1.If we can verify testimony's truth through independent observation or reasoning, testimony adds no epistemic content we couldn't obtain otherwise.
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    • 2.Knowledge requires justification; if justification comes entirely from non-testimonial sources, testimony is merely a conduit, not a knowledge-producer.
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    • 3.Irreducibility means testimony must provide something unique; but everything testified can theoretically be known through direct experience or inference.
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