Definition of "overhearer" []

• One who overhears. (noun)

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• "Still, the moral bond imposes a constraint or bind on the hearer, but not the overhearer, which is a pressure toward acceptance, and acceptance is an epistemic judgment."
• "Yet the overhearer has, it would seem, the same evidence as the hearer."
• "The overhearer has no such social-ethical duty to the speaker, and the speaker feels no ethical obligation of veracity toward the overhearer."