I am not the first to suggest that telling and promising are somehow connected. But, in my view, this connection has not previously been articulated in the most plausible fashion, and so has been vulnerable to easy objections. Exploring the connection also has a broader purpose in the context of this book. It helps us understand the way in which ‘epistemic’ or ‘intellectual’ trust, distrust, and trustworthiness are related to their practical counterparts: trusting someone to speak truthfully is a special case of trusting him or her to do something. This will allow me to move between epistemic
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