Sentence examples for formulation of fallibilism from inspiring English sources

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The exact formulation of fallibilism remains somewhat controversial.

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Carneades' theory is thus an early instance of fallibilism.

For some nice discussion of fallibilism, see Feldman 1981.

Still others read Xenophanes' remarks as a blanket endorsement of "fallibilism"—the view that while each individual is free to express his or her opinion, the possibility of error can never be completely excluded.

Lewis' own attempt "to thread a course between the rock of fallibilism and the whirlpool of skepticism" (Lewis 1996, 566) involves embracing epistemic contextualism: We may say with the infallibilist that S knows that p iff S's evidence eliminates "every" possibility in which not-p (ibid., 551).

If Lewis is correct though in supposing that the relevant utterances are merely "overt, explicit" statements of fallibilism (ibid., 550), their seeming incoherence suggests that, contrary to our everyday epistemic pretensions, "knowledge must be by definition infallible" after all (ibid., 549).

It was an early formulation of his blank-spots idea.

His formulation of this thought was, of course, excruciatingly diplomatic.

"That's perfectly consistent with the formulation of the reserve".

(There is also a formulation of Neo-Synephrine containing oxymetazoline).

Consider Kitcher's formulation of this objection.

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