Examining Greco’s Solution to «the Garbage Problem» in the Epistemology of Testimony

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1 University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 University of Tehran

10.22091/jptr.2024.10010.2958

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Posing the issue of fallacies, Aristotle tried to keep safe the discursive reasonone of the sources of knowledgefrom likely errors. Likewise, John Greco wants, in fact, to determine the reliable framework of testimonyanother source of knowledgeby introducing the garbage problem. To solve the problem, he tries to consider the garbage problem as a generality problem. In this way, the relevant parameterswhich practical concerns/tasks that form the epistemic community determine themwarrant the reliability by narrowing the transmission channels. We will recognize some deficiencies in his view taking an analytical and critical approach and a comprehensive look at his epistemology of testimony in general. So, we indicate that a better formulation of the problem can be offered. We cannot ignore the two following difficulties though the difficulty of letting luck into the knowledge and the difficulty of being a partly person-oriented solution could somehow be resolvable. First, Greco does not explain how practical concerns lead us to right results. Second, it is not that the practical tasks and the relevant parameters are always known.

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