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This is to discuss the significance of testimonial accounts as sources in supporting claims on Ikwipedia. Testimony is what someone (known as a witness) says they experienced or sensed. When someone testifies it is not inherently inferior to other kinds of non-empirical evidence. Testimony, including statements such as "I saw an alien," is unequivocally a form of evidence. A consensus that testimony is inherently evidence, at least in some cultures, is apparently implicit in the use of "to give one's evidence" as a formal synonym for "to testify".

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	This is to discuss the significance of testimonial accounts as [[Ikwipedia:Acceptable sources\|sources]] in supporting claims on [[Ikwipedia:About\|Ikwipedia]]. When someone testifies ~~or gives their "evidence,"~~ it is not inherently inferior to other kinds of non-empirical evidence. Testimony, including statements such as "I saw an alien," is unequivocally ~~evidence. Testimony is~~ [[Ikwipedia:Evidence\|evidence]].		This is to discuss the significance of '''testimonial accounts''' as [[Ikwipedia:Acceptable sources\|sources]] in supporting claims on [[Ikwipedia:About\|Ikwipedia]]. '''Testimony''' is what someone (known as a '''witness''') says they experienced or sensed. When someone testifies it is not inherently inferior to other kinds of non-empirical evidence. Testimony, including statements such as "I saw an alien," is unequivocally a form of [[Ikwipedia:Evidence\|evidence]]. A consensus that testimony is inherently evidence, at least in some cultures, is apparently implicit in the use of "to give one's evidence" as a formal synonym for "to testify".