Ideas from 'Fallibilism' by Trent Dougherty [2011], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Routledge Companion to Epistemology' (ed/tr Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D) [Routledge 2014,978-0-415-72269-8]].

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

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Fallibilism is consistent with dogmatism or scepticism, and is not alternative to them

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It is best to see the fallibility in the reasons, rather than in the agents or the knowledge

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We can't normally say that we know something 'but it might be false'