Doctrine that nothing can be known for certain; that is, there is no infallible knowledge, but there can still be knowledge. We need not have logically conclusive justifications for what we know.
This was particularly insisted on by the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) in his opposition to foundationalism.
Also see: relevant alternatives theory, epistemic closure
Table of Contents
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- 2.1 Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge
- 2.2 Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry: Fallibilism and Indeterminacy (Continuum Studies in American Philosophy)
- 2.3 Freedom, Indeterminism, and Fallibilism (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism)
- 2.4 DESCARTES' FOUNDATIONALISM AND POPPER'S FALLIBILISM: A RECONCILIATION: SCEPTICISM AND EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION
- 2.5 Pragmatism: An Introduction
- 2.6 Fallibilism Democracy and the Market: The Meta-Theoretical Foundations of Popper's Political Philosophy
- 2.7 Christian Higher Education and Postmodernity: Institutional Fallibilism (Routledge Research in Religion and Education)
- 2.8 Knowledge and Fallibilism: Essays on Improving Education
- 2.9 The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice
- 2.10 The Methods of Science and Religion: Epistemologies in Conflict
- pragmatism
- epistemic closure principle
- pragmatic (or pragmatist) theory of truth
- propensity theory of probability
- Charles Sanders Peirce
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Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge
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- Brown, Jessica (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages - 06/12/2018 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry: Fallibilism and Indeterminacy (Continuum Studies in American Philosophy)
- Hardcover Book
- Cooke, Elizabeth (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 192 Pages - 01/06/2007 (Publication Date) - Continuum (Publisher)
Freedom, Indeterminism, and Fallibilism (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism)
- Hardcover Book
- Frederick, Danny (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 274 Pages - 08/30/2020 (Publication Date) - Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
DESCARTES' FOUNDATIONALISM AND POPPER'S FALLIBILISM: A RECONCILIATION: SCEPTICISM AND EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION
- EKONG, JOSEPH (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 244 Pages - 02/27/2013 (Publication Date) - LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (Publisher)
Pragmatism: An Introduction
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- Bacon, Michael (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 232 Pages - 04/16/2013 (Publication Date) - Polity (Publisher)
Fallibilism Democracy and the Market: The Meta-Theoretical Foundations of Popper's Political Philosophy
- Hardcover Book
- Hayes, Calvin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 248 Pages - 01/01/1955 (Publication Date) - UPA (Publisher)
Christian Higher Education and Postmodernity: Institutional Fallibilism (Routledge Research in Religion and Education)
- Hardcover Book
- Rine, P Jesse (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 176 Pages - 01/01/2021 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Knowledge and Fallibilism: Essays on Improving Education
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- Hardcover Book
- Swartz, Ronald M. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 152 Pages - 11/01/1980 (Publication Date) - New York University Press (Publisher)
The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice
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- Orange, Donna M. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 282 Pages - 05/09/2011 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
The Methods of Science and Religion: Epistemologies in Conflict
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- Smith, Tiddy (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 236 Pages - 07/05/2019 (Publication Date) - Lexington Books (Publisher)
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