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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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    Reason against 2 of 2
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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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