 Well before C. A. J. Coady’s masterful monograph on testimony (1992) that revived widespread interest in the topic, Anscombe published a little essay titled “What Is It to Believe Someone?”, anticipating many points he and others later developed. She wrote that the topic of believing someone is not merely neglected but actually unknown in the philosophical discussion of her time. Yet she avers that it is “of great importance in philosophy and in life”, for “the greater part of our knowledge of reality rests upon the belief that we repose in things we have been taught and told”. What is it, then, for a person, rather than a proposition, to be the object of belief?