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Full Idea
Accuracy and Sincerity sustain trust as regards contributing knowledge to the pool; Testimonial Justice helps sustain trust as regards acquiring knowledge from the pool.
Gist of Idea
Offering knowledge needs accuracy and sincerity; receiving it needs testimonial justice
Source
Miranda Fricker (Epistemic Injustice [2007], 5.1)
Book Ref
Fricker,Miranda: 'Epistemic Injustice' [OUP 2007], p.116
A Reaction
Fricker's contribution is to show that acquiring knowledge has its own virtues, alongside discovering and communicating it. I take the underlying virtue to be absolute respect for all possible contributors.