Concept

Fallibilism

Overview

philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Fallibilism

• Karl Popper
• Imre Lakatos
• Josiah Royce
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• William James
• Thomas Tymoczko

Related ideas

• Belief
• Cognition
• Foundationalism
• Finite set
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Pyrrhonism
• Immanuel Kant
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery
• John Calvin
• Karl Popper
• Synthese
• Immortality
• Logical positivism
• Perfection
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Augustine of Hippo
• Christian Wolff (philosopher)
• Philosophical skepticism
• Evidence
• Plato
• Problem of the criterion
• Knowledge
• René Descartes
• Thomas Hobbes

Opposing perspectives

• Agnosticism
• World disclosure

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Actual and potential infinity
• Finite set
• Imre Lakatos
• Medieval Latin
• Perfection
• Agrippa the Skeptic
• Simulation hypothesis
• Hans Albert
• Galileo's paradox
• Infallibilism
• Knowledge acquisition
• Metaphilosophy (journal)
• Turtles all the way down
• Philosophical Issues
• Scott Aikin

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