{"pk":25598,"title":"The reliability of testimony and perception: connecting epistemology and\nlinguistic evidentiality","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Epistemologists have argued that there are three basic sources\nof belief: perception, testimony and inference. These three\nbelief sources correspond directly to the way in which many\nlanguages mark statements morphologically for sources of evidence\nfor the statements (evidentiality). In this paper, we connect\ngeneralizations from the fields of epistemology and evidentiality.\nWe also introduce a new method for investigating\nhow reliable people find different types of evidence to be. A\nstudy based on this method indicates that speakers of English\nrank different sources of evidence according to the same criteria\nthat govern the use of grammaticalized evidential marking","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Epistemology"},{"word":"evidentiality"},{"word":"Language"},{"word":"testimony"},{"word":"perception"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59w6z399","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Clair","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lesage","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Nalini","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ramlakhan","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Ida","middle_name":"","last_name":"Toivonen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Chris","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wildman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25598/galley/15222/download/"}]}