Concept
Testimony
Overview
Testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a situation.
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But the testimony is scarcely ever found to stand that test, in cases in which the anomaly is not real. In the instances on record in which a great number of witnesses, of good reputation and scientific acquirements, have testified to the truth of something which has turned out untrue, there have almost always been circumstances which, to a keen observer who had taken due pains to sift the matter, would have…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Names Testimony several times; states what Testimony is.
Testimony raises even more awkward problems. What makes them so awkward is the fact that testimony is involved in building up our knowledge of physics, and that, conversely, physics is required in establishing the trustworthiness of testimony. Moreover, testimony raises all the problems connected with the relation of mind and matter. Some eminent philosophers, _e.g._ Leibniz, have constructed systems according to…
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
Names Testimony several times; states what Testimony is.
Suppose, for instance, that the fact, which the testimony endeavours to establish, partakes of the extraordinary and the marvellous; in that case, the evidence, resulting from the testimony, admits of a diminution, greater or less, in proportion as the fact is more or less unusual. The reason why we place any credit in witnesses and historians, is not derived from any _connexion_, which we perceive _a priori_…
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Names Testimony several times; opens on Testimony.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Formal epistemology.