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
Terra nullius Terra nullius Terra nullius (, plural "terrae nullius") is a Latin expression meaning "nobody's land", and is a principle sometimes used in international law to describe territory that may be acquired by a state's occupation of it. "Terra nullius" stems from the Roman law term "res nullius", meaning "nobody's thing". According to the Roman law "res nullius", or things without an owner, such as wild animals ("ferae beastiae"), lost slaves and abandoned buildings could be taken as property by anyone by seizure. A part of the debate over the history of "terra nullius" is when the term itself was first