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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.We implicitly assess speaker competence and honesty; this evaluation grounds justification even if not conscious or explicit.
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    • 2.Anti-reductionism risks accepting false testimony as justified belief if speaker seems sincere, absent reliability constraints.
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    • 3.Distinguishing testimonial justification from gullibility requires some inferential uptake of speaker credibility facts.
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    • 1.We rely on testimony for most knowledge (history, science, medicine) without consciously inferring it from speaker reliability.
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    • 2.Requiring inference from reliability presupposes we already know reliability facts, creating regress without independent justification.
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    • 3.Children acquire language and knowledge through testimony before developing inferential reasoning capacities.
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