ABSTRACT
There are a number of fundamental similarities between internalist and reliabilist approaches to testimony. Both take it that knowledge from testimony is fundamentally similar to knowledge from instruments, both maintain that it is possible to give an adequate account of testimony without appeal to transmission and both are the product of applying approaches to epistemology in general to the domain of testimony. Unlike defenders of internalist approaches, defenders of reliabilist approaches reject the claim that the fact that two testimonial situations are subjectively indistinguishable means that the listeners are alike with respect to epistemic grounds in each case. Like internalist approaches to testimony, reliabilist approaches have no use for the idea that testimony transmits knowledge and epistemic grounds. The reliabilist strategy for dispensing with transmission differs from the internalist strategy. Reliabilist approaches ought to maintain that the relevant processes are those involved in the listener's comprehension of the speaker's testimony.
