Philosophy of testimony captured in the motto of the Royal Society – ‘Nullius in verba (no man's word)’. Crudely put, the question is: 'How can testimony give us knowledge when we have no reasons of our own?' Coady suggests that there are two approaches to this problem: and Hume is one of the few early philosophers to offer anything like a sustained account of testimony, this can be found in his "‘An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding’" in the section on miracles. The basic idea is that our justification for believing what people tell us comes from our experience of the ‘...constant and regular
Verba Maximus by English Language Activities Society (ELAS), Journal Club and Hindi Tarang, which are student organisations at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. The first edition of the fest took place in 2011, less than three years after the campus became fully operational. Verba Maximus 2016 (VM16) was held on 30th and 31 January 2016. VM16 had events like "Yin Yang" (writing two sides of the same story), "Words of a Feather" (weaving a story around words that are announced one at a time), "Picture Perspective" (writing stories around a picture shown), apart from the regular events lit-quiz, group discussion and debate. Harimohan