Situated practices of testimony. A rhetorical approach

Contrary to most current epistemologists who concentrate on core cases of rather ‘spontaneous’ (deliberately  de-contextualized)  trust  and  belief  in the  face  of  assertions,  Classical  rhetoricians  addressed  the study of ‘testimony’ as an (at least) two-acts phenomenon: that of the ‘disclos...

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Main Author: Paula OLMOS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Basque Country 2008-01-01
Series:THEORIA : an International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science
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Online Access:http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/6