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moral testimony: a standalone construct

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Epistemology

believing moral claims on someone else's word, debated for whether it can give moral knowledge without moral understanding.

In epistemology, moral testimony refers to believing moral claims on someone else's word, debated for whether it can give moral knowledge without moral understanding. This meaning comes from Hills (2009) in Ethics.[1]

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knowledge6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs testimony3 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs word3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Hills, A. (2009). Moral Testimony and Moral Epistemology. Ethics, 120(1), 94-127. https://doi.org/10.1086/648610

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