Concept
Infallibility
Overview
Infallibility refers to unerring judgment, being absolutely correct in all matters and having an immunity from being wrong in even the smallest matter. It can be applied within a specific domain, or it can be used as a more general adjective. The term has significance in religion, epistemology and theology, and its meaning and significance in both fields is the subject of continued debate.
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Possible passages
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But those who thus satisfy themselves, do not perceive that the assumption of infallibility is merely shifted from one point to another. The usefulness of an opinion is itself matter of opinion: as disputable, as open to discussion, and requiring discussion as much, as the opinion itself.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
States what Infallibility is; the author is tied to Infallibility in the knowledge graph.
This has greatly assisted to bring demonstration in general into such esteem. But this infallibility is merely relative; the demonstration merely subsumes under the first principles of the science, and it is these which contain the whole material truth of science, and they must not themselves be demonstrated, but must be founded on perception. In the few _a priori_ sciences we have named above, this perception is…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
States what Infallibility is; names Infallibility.
Let custom from the very childhood have joined figure and shape to the idea of God, and what absurdities will that mind be liable to about the Deity? Let the idea of infallibility be inseparably joined to any person, and these two constantly together possess the mind; and then one body in two places at once, shall unexamined be swallowed for a certain truth, by an implicit faith, whenever that imagined infallible…
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1
States what Infallibility is; names Infallibility.
Philosophers who discussed Infallibility
Related ideas
- Arjuna
- The Guide for the Perplexed
- Jesus
- Beatific vision
- Philosophy
- Muhammad
- Maimonides
- Mishnah
- Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith)
- Philosophical skepticism
- Bhagavad Gita
- Religion
- Talmud
- Theology
- Occam's razor
- Quran
- Krishna
- Reason
- Baháʼí Faith
- Islam
- Rationality
- Subjectivism
- Azerbaijan
- Geonim
Place in the tradition
Part of Foundationalism.