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 Translation for 'fallibilism' from English to Russian
NOUN   fallibilism | fallibilisms
филос.
фаллибилизм {м}
fallibilism
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Translation for 'fallibilism' from English to Russian

fallibilism
фаллибилизм {м}филос.
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Usage Examples English
  • Broad consensus notwithstanding, some contemporary philosophers have presented arguments in defense of infallibilism and have therefore come to reject fallibilism.
  • One example of an alternative is the fallibilism of Karl Popper and Hans Albert, accepting that certainty is impossible, but that it is best to get as close as possible to truth, while remembering our uncertainty.
  • Originally, fallibilism (from Medieval Latin: "fallibilis", "liable to err") is the philosophical principle that propositions can be accepted even though they cannot be conclusively proven or justified, However, according to the Duhem-Quine thesis, statements can neither be conclusively verified nor falsified in isolation from auxiliary assumptions (also called a "bundle of hypotheses").
  • If one accepts the principle of fallibilism then one also has to accept that source criticism can never 100% verify knowledge claims.
  • While experimentalism is empirical in approach, It is also maintained that the experimental attitude is based on the principle of fallibilism, operating with the notion that outcomes of prior inquiries are not absolutely certain or already known and that prior findings could be wrong.

  • Assuming that the need for rational doubt or fallibilism is understood to be important, Russell then goes on to address the question of why irrational certainty is so common.
  • This stance is called fallibilism by the philosophers of his generation, and Royce's embrace of it may be attributed to the influence of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James.
  • Nikolas Kompridis has described two kinds of fallibilism in this regard.
  • Indeed, more than a specialized scientific or epistemological doctrine, fallibilism is an ethical and political stance, the outlook on life we need to cultivate if we want to exorcise the Cartesian Anxiety and overcome the grand Either/Or between relativism and foundationalism that affects contemporary culture.
  • Bertrand Russell in "Free Thought and Official Propaganda" argued that one must always adhere to fallibilism, recognizing of all human knowledge that "None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error", and that the only means of progressing ever-closer to the truth is to never assume certainty, but always examine all sides and try to reach a conclusion objectively.

  • Both argued that one must always adhere to fallibilism, recognizing of all human knowledge that "None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error," and that the only means of progressing ever-closer to the truth is to never assume certainty, but always examine all sides and try to reach a conclusion objectively.
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