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    Testimony from a source whose reliability is unknown to the hearer does not put the hearer in a position to know the testified proposition.

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    • 1.Knowledge requires not merely true belief produced by a reliable process, but that the knower be appropriately connected to the grounds of that reliability (Greco's agent reliabilism).
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    • 2.A hearer ignorant of a source's reliability cannot integrate that reliability into their epistemic agency, making any resulting true belief a matter of luck rather than knowledge.
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    • 3.Epistemic luck of this kind—where the hearer would believe equally from an unreliable source—is precisely what Pritchard's anti-luck epistemology identifies as incompatible with knowledge.
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    • 1.Transmission of knowledge through testimony requires that the hearer possess adequate epistemic reasons to treat the source as credible, per Fricker's evidential internalism about testimonial justification.
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    • 2.Without accessible evidence of reliability, the hearer's acceptance of testimony is epistemically indistinguishable from credulity, which cannot constitute a knowledge-generating doxastic state.
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    • 1.A person is utterly reliable with regard to whether p is the case.
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    • 2.The hearer has no information about that person's reliability.
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    • 3.Reliability of a testimonial source that is unknown to the hearer is not sufficient to generate knowledge in the hearer.
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    The epistemological puzzle testimony raises is this: Why is testimony a source of knowledge? An externalist might say that testimony is a source of knowledge if, and because, it comes from a reliable source. But here, even more so than in the case of our faculties, internalists will not find that answer satisfactory. Suppose you hear someone saying “p”. Suppose further that person is in fact utterly reliable with regard to the question of whether p is the case or not. Finally, suppose you have n
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