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fallible adjective deficient, errable, errant, erring, errori obnoxius, faulty, flawed, imperfect, liable to be errooeous, liable to mistake, not perfect, prone to error, prone to inaccuracy, uncertain, undependable, unpredictable, unstable, unsure, untrustworthy, weak See also: disputable, dubious, peccable, unreliable, untrustworthy, vulnerable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And, of course, this fallibilism helps to inoculate empiricists against the self-righteousness of being necessarily right. He makes a lucid case for ethical pluralism that is not relativism and a fallibilism that is not skepticism (in this, he seems to me to be advancing a view I would call "pragmatism," but I'm uncertain he would welcome that label). In short (referring to Thellefsen, 2004 for a thorough discussion of these concepts), fallibilism means that knowledge is provisional. |
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