Knowledge acquisition begins with unexamined reliance on others’ claims

Evidence

Wittgenstein’s discussion is about how we come to know things. He says we simply rely on the claims of others. For example, a child begins learning by believing its parents, by relying on them, not by checking out the objective truth of their claims. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 381

Categorization

• XREF: Complement to Hardin’s picture: epistemic grounding rests on a prior, unexamined reliance — the primitive substrate beneath trust that, in Saramago’s blindness novel, would be exactly what collapses.