This conservative, fallibilist position, which Hume calls mitigated scepticism, is the proper epistemic attitude for anyone “sensible of the strange infirmities of human understanding” ❋ Morris, William Edward (2009)
He must be, and is, an anti-foundationalist and a fallibilist. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But the pragmatists have also tended to share a distinctive epistemological outlook, a fallibilist anti-Cartesian approach to the norms that govern inquiry. ❋ Hookway, Christopher (2008)
(LW: 15.24) Both Peirce and James combined their pragmatism with a distinctive epistemological outlook, one which rejected the Cartesian focus upon the importance of defeating skepticism while endorsing the fallibilist view that any of our beliefs and methods could, in principle, turn out to be flawed. ❋ Hookway, Christopher (2008)
Campbell, Donald T., and Paller, Bonnie T. (1989), "Extending Evolutionary Epistemology to" Justifying "Scientific Beliefs (A sociological rapprochement with a fallibilist perceptual foundationalism?)." ❋ Bradie, Michael (2008)
If so, very few propositions would be known (assuming a fallibilist notion of evidence); the specter of skepticism would hover ominously. ❋ Goldman, Alvin (2008)
The pragmatist maxim was first developed in the context of a fallibilist, broadly empiricist approach to the study of inquiry, and it is this approach to inquiry that is central to pragmatism in the wider sense. ❋ Hookway, Christopher (2008)
Most contemporary accounts of knowledge are fallibilist, which means they do not require that a person believe in a way that cannot be mistaken in order to have knowledge. ❋ Zagzebski, Linda (2008)
So, while the sentences Lewis cites are self-contradictory, they do not capture the fallibilist idea after all. ❋ Rysiew, Patrick (2007)
On this view, CKAs express, as Lewis assumes, precisely the fallibilist idea. ❋ Rysiew, Patrick (2007)
If you are a contented fallibilist, I implore you to be honest, be näive, hear it afresh. ❋ Rysiew, Patrick (2007)
The evidence suggests that he proposed instead a weaker, fallibilist theory that allowed for ordinary knowledge but did not support the theoretical dogmatism of the Academics 'philosophical rivals. ❋ Brittain, Charles (2006)
By partial contrast, Neurath's own physicalism was fallibilist and anti-foundationalist from the start (1931b, 1932a). ❋ Uebel, Thomas (2006)
Ambiguity theorists say that, in the fallibilist sense of ˜know™, one can know that one isn't a BIV. ❋ Steup, Matthias (2005)
Against this skeptical predicament of the first generation of Critical Theory, it could be said without exaggeration that Habermas's basic philosophical endeavor from Knowledge and Human Interests to The Theory of Communicative Action has been to develop a more modest, fallibilist, empirical account of the philosophical claim to universality and rationality. ❋ Bohman, James (2005)
How, then, could one possibly know, even in the fallibilist sense of ˜know™, that one isn't a BIV? ❋ Steup, Matthias (2005)
Is it possible to combine Catholicism with a different (fallibilist) view of truth / knowledge / authority? ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is a very piecemeal, fallibilist view of knowledge, but I don't know what the alternative is. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It seems that the fallibilist will say that I can know this but will also concede that it might be that I'm mistaken about this. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The worry is that it seems like (1) expresses the basic fallibilist idea, and yet it seems contradictory. ❋ Unknown (2009)
