Thanks for the clear answer. If I understand you correctly, text alone cannot provide any justifiability, but text in addition to other sensory evidence (locati

Thanks for the clear answer. If I understand you correctly, text alone cannot provide any justifiability, but text in addition to other sensory evidence (location, seeing the radiometric device's results, etc.) can provide justified knowledge. Let me protest against this broader point. If I'm a historian, do I have to find the physical text in the original place myself, or can this information be supplied to me in the form of text? Do I have to actually see the radiocarbon dating machine work myself, or is it enough that the operator sends me an email with the results? What you describe doesn't really strike me as evidence that cannot be supplied through text - you mentioned that it's recorded yourself. It's still text about the past, maybe even with an extra level of indirection (it describes the ~present which has some information about the past). It follows that some of LLMs statements about historical artifacts should be justifiable - those coming from the written word that our hypothetical historian would study. Is that not correct?