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
The Word on the Street (literary festival) participation as a Word On The Street festival. It has been re-branded as WORD Vancouver. The Word On The Street Lethbridge began in 2011 and happens in the street surrounding the Lethbridge Public Library. The first full-fledged Word On The Street Saskatoon was held in 2011 in and around the Frances Morrison Library. In 2007, the board of the Calgary event announced that it would not be held in 2008 for logistical reasons. The Word on the Street (literary festival) The Word On The Street is a Canadian book and magazine festival held each September in Toronto, Kitchener, Lethbridge, Saskatoon,