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02 May 15
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Unlike scepticism, fallibilism does not imply the need to abandon our knowledge - we needn't have logically conclusive justifications for what we know. Rather, it is an admission that, because empirical knowledge can be revised by further observation, any of the things we take as knowledge might possibly turn out to be false.
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Some fallibilists make an exception for things that are axiomatically true (such as mathematical and logical knowledge). Others remain fallibilists about these as well, on the basis that, even if these axiomatic systems are in a sense infallible, we are still capable of error when working with these systems.
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15 May 14
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Fallibilism (from medieval Latin fallibilis, "liable to err") is the philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs,
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14 Jun 13
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principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world, and yet still be justified in holding their incorrect beliefs.
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any claim justiļ¬ed today may need to be revised or withdrawn in light of new evidence, new arguments, and new experiences.
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Some fallibilists argue that absolute certainty about knowledge is impossible
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empirical
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axiomatically true (such as mathematical and logical knowledge)
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that objectively true moral standards may exist, but that they cannot be reliably or conclusively determined by humans.
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This much is certain: nothing is certain
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23 Feb 13
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Fallibilism (from medieval Latin fallibilis, "liable to err") is the philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world, and yet still be justified in holding their incorrect beliefs.
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need to be revised or withdrawn in light of new evidence, new arguments, and new experiences
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historical flux and change
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absolute certainty about knowledge is impossible. As a formal doctrine, fallibilism is most strongly associated with Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey, and other pragmatists, who use it in their attacks on foundationalism.
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proponent of fallibilism is Karl Popper, who builds his theory of knowledge, critical rationalism, on falsifiability. Fallibilism has been employed by Willard Van Orman Quine to attack, among other things, the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements
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Unlike scepticism, fallibilism does not imply the need to abandon our knowledge
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empirical knowledge can be revised by further observatio
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impossible to prove any truth with certainty
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third plausible stance: that objectively true moral standards may exist, but that they cannot be reliably or conclusively determined by humans.
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"This much is certain: nothing is certain
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25 May 10
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25 Jan 10
my serendipitiesFallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken. Some fallibilists go further, arguing that absolute certainty about knowledge is impossible.
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02 Apr 09
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Unlike scepticism, fallibilism does not imply the need to abandon our knowledge - we needn't have logically conclusive justifications for what we know. Rather, it is an admission that, because empirical knowledge can be revised by further observation, any of the things we take as knowledge might possibly turn out to be false.
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Some fallibilists make an exception for things that are axiomatically true (such as mathematical and logical knowledge). Others remain fallibilists about these as well, on the basis that, even if these axiomatic systems are in a sense infallible, we are still capable of error when working with these systems.
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05 Mar 09
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13 Dec 08
Howard SilvermanFallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of
knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken. Some fallibilists go
further, arguing that absolute certainty about knowledge is impossible.
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