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fallibilism

Noun

Meaning

fallibilism (usually uncountable, plural fallibilisms)

The doctrine that knowledge is never certain, but always hypothetical and susceptible to correction.

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Examples

This statement stresses Peirce's view that ideas of approximation, incompleteness, and partiality, what he describes elsewhere as fallibilism and "reference to the future", are essential to a proper conception of truth. Source: Internet

To refuse absolute theoretical certainty is the heart of fallibilism, which Peirce unfolds into refusals to set up any of the listed barriers. Source: Internet

Peirce elsewhere argues (1897) that logic's presupposition of fallibilism leads at length to the view that chance and continuity are very real ( tychism and synechism ). Source: Internet

The Indian philosopher B. K. Matilal has drawn on the Navya-Nyāya fallibilism tradition to respond to the Gettier problem. Source: Internet

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