Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Eubulides, John Duns Scotus and Charles Sanders Peirce

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
Certainty comes from the self-evident, from induction, and from self-awareness [Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism
Inquiry is not standing on bedrock facts, but standing in hope on a shifting bog [Peirce]
Reasoning is based on statistical induction, so it can't achieve certainty or precision [Peirce]
Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]