PHILOSOPHY OF TESTIMONY

                               PHILOSOPHY OF TESTIMONY

Testimony has different definitions. In low testimony is an “Oral or written evidence given by a competent witness, under oath, at trial or in an affidavit or deposition.” Christians use the term “to give one's testimony" to mean "to tell the story of how one became a Christian". But in analytical philosophy, expression is used as a label for the process of gaining knowledge or trust, usually by understanding and believing other people's speeches or written records, regardless of setting. Testimony enables the spread of current news, information, people opinions, and gossip throughout a society. In modern society testimony is a major source of faith. It also protects the heritage of our accumulated knowledge and beliefs in history, geography, sciences, and technology.

                                                                                                                               

    philosophical issues concerning testimony

In modern society, many of an individual's beliefs are either directly derived from testimony, or based on other beliefs so derived. Are the beliefs quotes from this testimony ever justified?

The primary concern of the philosophy of regarding testimony is epistemological. It show why such beliefs are justified and unreasonable.

 This primary concern is related to, or overlapping with, others. First: Evidence as an Episterna type should be more accurately represented and characterized. Second: Gaining faith through testimony primarily involves understanding one's content and power of speech as an audience. Third, an account of how beliefs derived from testimony can be justified, and knowledgeable, cannot be elaborated ad hoc.

 Going back to our primary project, this can be further divided into two as normative epistemology and descriptive psychology. Normative epistemology will tell us if there are conditions under which a belief obtained by evidence can be justified and justified, and how a belief system that relies heavily on evidence can be so. Descriptive psychology will tell us what it really is to acquire human beliefs through evidence, and to what extent our reliable systems rely on evidence to.

Our central question of testimony can be divided into two dimensions, and presents four clear questions for investigation.

1.      Descriptive Local Question

2.      Normative Local Question

3.      Descriptive Global Question

4.     Normative Global Question

                                 PRINCIPLE ABOUT TESTIMONY

1.      The conjecture is that it is a correct epistemic principle about testimony that,

                    I.            Pure Transmission principle (PTP)

                  II.            Reliable Transmission Principle

CONCLUSION

Testimony is a formal statement saying that something is true. It may be oral or written. In a modern society testimony thus broadly understood is one of the main sources of belief.

REFERENCES

1. 1.      Fricker, E., 2004. Testimony: Knowing through being told. In Handbook of epistemology (pp. 109-130). Springer, Dordrecht.
2. 2.    Epistemology of testimony https://iep.utm.edu/ep-testi/