Since TV-S implies testimony mechanically transfers knowledge regardless of the recipient's epistemic character, it conflicts with the social-functional conditions knowledge attributions actually serve.
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Social-functional conditions(as used in epistemology and philosophy of language)
The practical purposes that knowledge claims actually serve in society—what we're really trying to accomplish when we talk about who knows something.
TV-S(Epistemology of testimony)
The sufficiency component of the Transmission View of testimony, which opponents target with counterexamples involving compulsively trusting hearers
implies(as used in logic and argumentation)
In philosophy, this means 'logically requires' or 'necessarily leads to'—if one thing is true, the other must also be true.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
testimony(social epistemology)
The transmission of knowledge or information from one person to another by telling them