Justification Supporting Knowledge on Wikipedia: Epistemology of Testimony Perspective

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Published: Dec 31, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14456/lartstu.2021.36
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Wikipedia Testimony Knowledge Social Epistemology

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Denpong Saenkum
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Puttharak Prabnok
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

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This article aims to justify supporting sources of knowledge from Wikipedia as testimony. This article which refers to three philosophical propositions including Tollefsen's proposition, Wray's proposition and Adisorn's proposition. In the next section, I show that the three propositions fail in the case of justifying Wikipedia as testimony. In the last part, I argue that we can justify supporting Wikipedia in the way of both reductionism and anti-reductionism, which depend on the condition of context.

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Saenkum , D., & Prabnok, P. (2021). Justification Supporting Knowledge on Wikipedia: Epistemology of Testimony Perspective. Journal of Liberal Arts Thammasat University, 21(2), 500–531. https://doi.org/10.14456/lartstu.2021.36
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