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- Title: Learning from Words
- Author : Jennifer Lackey
- Release Date : January 18, 2010
- Genre: Philosophy,Books,Nonfiction,Reference,Words & Language,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7574 KB
Description
Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamentally misguided. Her radical new theory holds that testimony is itself an irreducible source of new knowledge, to which both speaker and hearer contribute.