An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. Trust in witnesses is learned like everything else, because reports have usually matched what happened. When a report claims something that almost never happens, those 2 kinds of experience pull against each other.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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