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
Glossary of ancient Roman religion with the "pomerium" as sacred boundary and the "arx" (citadel), and Quirinal and Palatine hills as reference points whenever a specially dedicated "templum" was created within. Augurs had authority to establish multiple "templa" beyond the pomerium, using the same augural principles. "Verba certa" (also found nearly as often with the word order "certa verba") are the "exact words" of a legal or religious formula, that is, the words as "set once and for ever, immutable and unchangeable." Compare "certae precationes", fixed prayers of invocation, and "verba concepta", which in both Roman civil law and augural law described a verbal formula