fallibilismn.
/ˈfalᵻbᵻlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfæləbəˌlɪz(ə)m/ΚΠ
1870 in tr. ‘Quirinus’ Lett. from Rome on Council Contents p. xviii Conolly's speech explaining his conversion to fallibilism.
2. Philosophy. The principle that propositions concerning empirical knowledge cannot be proved.Peirce uses the term several times in papers (such as that cited in quot. a1914) that are dated c1897 by Peirce scholars, but the basis for this dating is uncertain.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scepticism > [noun] > other doctrines and their adherents
fallibilisma1914
a1914 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1931) I. i. iii. 70 Fallibilism is the doctrine that our knowledge is never absolute but always swims, as it were, in a continuum of uncertainty and of indeterminacy.
1941 Mind 50 81 Fallibilism which denies intuitive or certain knowledge even of common-sense propositions.
2009 H. Bauer & E. Brighi Pragmatism in Internat. Relations 8 Festenstein reviews pragmatism in terms of its commitment to holism, fallibilism, antiscepticism and the primacy of practice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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