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Full Idea
Our idea of testimonial sensibility is a spontaneous critical sensitivity permanently in training and adapting to experience. …This gives us a picture of how judgements can be rational yet unreflective, critical yet non-inferential.
Gist of Idea
Judgements can be unreflective and non-inferential, yet rational, by being sensitive to experience
Source
Miranda Fricker (Epistemic Injustice [2007], 3.4)
Book Ref
Fricker,Miranda: 'Epistemic Injustice' [OUP 2007], p.84
A Reaction
Love this. I want to connect human reasoning to good judgement by animals, and I offer the word 'sensible' to bridge the gap. Dogs and scientists can be sensible. Fricker spells out more fully what I have in mind, with reference to testimony.