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 used. According to historian of ideas Andrew Fitzmaurice, "territorium nullius" and "terra nullius" were two different, albeit related, legal terms. He claims that "territorium nullius" was first used in a meeting of the Institut de Droit International in 1888 where the legal principles of the Berlin conference discussed and that "terra nullius" was introduced twenty years later during legal disputes over the polar regions. Historian Michael Connor on the other hand, argues that "territorium nullius" and "terra nullius" are the same thing. Both scholars are active in the Australian history wars debate. There is considerable debate among historians about how