 Conditional independence is intended to capture the idea that the testimonies are independent in the sense that there is no direct influence between the testimonies. The probability of a testimony is influenced only by the fact it reports on, meaning that once that fact is given, this “screens off” any probabilistic influence between the individual testimonies making them irrelevant to each other. Nonfoundationalism states that neither testimony confers any justification upon \(A\) by itself: assuming merely that one single witness has testified that \(A\) has no effect on the probability of \(A\). Finally, Coherence Justification states that testimonies, when combined, do provide justification for \(A\).