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  • Meinong was both an anti-skeptical and fallibilistic thinker.

    Salvation Santa 2009

  • Meinong (1915) linked the “principle of the self-validity of all knowing” [“Prinzip der Selbstgültigkeit alles Erkennens”], a kind of prima facie justification principle, with the fallibilistic methodological-epistemological “principle of the critical openness of all knowing” [“Prinzip der kritischen Unabgeschlossenheit alles Erkennens”], which says that critical examination is always possible, since there is always an unverified judgment left at the end of a justification process.

    Salvation Santa 2009

  • I have beliefs but I consider them fallibilistic just as any good scientist would.

    Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

  • This acceptance implies a fallibilistic conception of belief that emphasizes its qualified and subjective nature (in a similar vein, Bett recognizes a Carneadean "approval" which he distinguishes from the "assent" that Carneades rejects).

    Ancient Skepticism Groarke, Leo 2008

  • The problem with the standard account, in either version, is that it does not allow for fallibilistic knowledge of necessary truths.

    Certainty Reed, Baron 2008

  • The best way to solve the problem for the analysis of fallibilistic knowledge is to focus, not on the entailment relation, but rather on the probabilistic relation holding between the subject's justification and the proposition believed (see Reed 2002).

    Certainty Reed, Baron 2008

  • According to the standard account, the subject has fallibilistic knowledge that

    Certainty Reed, Baron 2008

  • Since I don't subscribe to the absolute truth of any tradition (or scripture) my take on religious knowledge is a quite a bit more uncertain and fallibilistic than most would like.

    But Will it Sell in Peoria? 2005

  • It may go very wrong on some aspects (a flat earth) but that does not invalidate the body of knowledge in the gestalt or the fallibilistic process of discovering the truth.

    But Will it Sell in Peoria? 2005

  • Jason Stanley (2005a) attempts to block Lewis 'move to EC and defends fallibilism against the worry that overtly fallibilistic speech is incoherent.

    Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

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