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Infallibilism is the epistemological view that propositional knowledge is incompatible with the possibility of being wrong. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: InfallibilismA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Epistemological and methodological aspectes and problems of conceptual debate of fallibilism and infallibilism / Эпистемологические и методологические аспекты и проблемы концептуального спора фаллибилизма и инфаллибилизмаInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Das allgemeine Concilium und der religi©·ose FreidenThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Infallibilism and Human KindsCited 21 times
- Go sideways: FallibilismA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Justification (epistemology)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A doctrine of the infallibility of a certain person or thing, especially the doctrine of papal infallibility; support of this doctrine.
Noun The theory that belief in a true proposition counts as knowledge only if the proposition is necessarily entailed by the evidence or reasoning that supports this belief.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Infallibilism and Human Kinds
Infallibilism and Gettier's Legacy
The Gettier-illusion: Gettier-partialism and infallibilism
Infallibilism, evidence and pragmatics
RECONSIDERING CLOSURE, UNDERDETERMINATION, AND INFALLIBILISM
Infallibilism about Self-Knowledge
The redundancy problem: From knowledge-infallibilism to knowledge-minimalism
Pragmatic infallibilism
🆕 Influential since 2022
Epistemological and methodological aspectes and problems of conceptual debate of fallibilism and infallibilism / Эпистемологические и методологические аспекты и проблемы концептуального спора фаллибилизма и инфаллибилизма
Refuting two dilemmas for infallibilism
Pragmatic Infallibilism, Skeptical Perseverance, and Bar Room Knowledge
Cartesian Infallibilism and a Guarantee of Truth
The Essence and Epistemological Significance of the Conceptual Dispute between Fallibilism and Infallibilism
📚 Books worth reading
Das allgemeine Concilium und der religi©·ose FreidenHenri-Louis-Charles Maret
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