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    It is not the case that Some sources of evidence are merely derivative, deriving their justificatory power from a more basic source.

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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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    • 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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