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    Some sources of evidence are merely derivative, deriving their justificatory power from a more basic source.

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    • 1.Contingent sources of evidence provide justification only because some basic source justifies their use.
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    • 2.Testimony is a plausible example of a derivative source whose justificatory standing depends on a more basic source such as perception.
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    • 1.Testimony constitutes an irreducible, non-inferential source of justification, as argued by C.A.J. Coady's anti-reductionism about testimony.
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    • 2.If testimony generates justification independently of perceptual confirmation, the derivative/basic hierarchy collapses for at least one purportedly derivative source.
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    • 1.Coherentism (BonJour, early; Quine) holds that justification arises from mutual support among beliefs, not from foundational basic sources.
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    • 2.If no source is epistemically prior to all others, then the category of 'merely derivative' evidence presupposes a foundationalist architecture that coherentism denies.
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    Bealer offers a complicated multi-stage argument for why intuitions, so understood, provide evidence. Part of his argument involves distinguishing basic from derivative sources of evidence. Some contingent sources of evidence provide justification but only because some basic source justifies their use. Perhaps perception is a basic source of evidence and testimony derivative. But what makes a source of evidence basic? For Bealer, a source of evidence is basic if and only if its deliverances have
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