%0 Journal Article
%T Martians and Meetings: Against Burge's Neo-Kantian Apriorism about Testimony
%A Elizabeth Fricker
%J Philosophica
%D 2006
%I Ghent University
%X Burge proposes the Acceptance Principle"", which states that it is apriori that a hearer may properly accept what she is told in the absence of defeaters, since any giver of testimony is a rational agent, and as such one can presume she is a ""source of truth"". It is claimed that Burge's Principle is not intuitively compelling, so that a suasive, not merely an explanatory justification for it is needed
%U http://logica.ugent.be/philosophica/fulltexts/78-5.pdf