Noun
fallibilism (usually uncountable, plural fallibilisms)
The doctrine that knowledge is never certain, but always hypothetical and susceptible to correction.
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