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Meaning of "fallibilist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FALLIBILIST

fallibilist  [ˈfælɪbəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FALLIBILIST

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Fallibilist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FALLIBILIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fallibilism

Fallibilism is the philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world, and yet still be justified in holding their incorrect beliefs. In the most commonly used sense of the term, this consists in being open to new evidence that would contradict some previously held position or belief, and in the recognition that "any claim justified today may need to be revised or withdrawn in light of new evidence, new arguments, and new experiences." This position is taken for granted in the natural sciences. In another sense, it refers to the consciousness of "the degree to which our interpretations, valuations, our practices, and traditions are temporally indexed" and subject to historical flux and change. Such "time-responsive" fallibilism consists in an openness to the confirmation of a possibility that one anticipates or expects in the future. Some fallibilists argue that absolute certainty about knowledge is impossible. As a formal doctrine, fallibilism is most strongly associated with Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey, and other pragmatists, who use it in their attacks on foundationalism.

Definition of fallibilist in the English dictionary

The definition of fallibilist in the dictionary is a supporter of fallibilism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FALLIBILIST


ableist
ˈeɪbəlɪst
arbalest
ˈɑːbəlɪst
arbalist
ˈɑːbəlɪst
arbelest
ˈɑːbəlɪst
arcubalist
ˈɑːkjʊbəlɪst
cruciverbalist
ˌkruːsɪˈvɜːbəlɪst
diabolist
daɪˈæbəlɪst
globalist
ˈɡləʊbəlɪst
herbalist
ˈhɜːbəlɪst
hyperbolist
haɪˈpɜːbəlɪst
impossibilist
ɪmˈpɒsɪbəlɪst
infallibilist
ɪnˈfælɪbəlɪst
kabbalist
ˈkæbəlɪst
labellist
ˈlɛɪbəlɪst
libelist
ˈlaɪbəlɪst
parabolist
pəˈræbəlɪst
symbolist
ˈsɪmbəlɪst
tribalist
ˈtraɪbəlɪst
turntablist
ˈtɜːnˌteɪbəlɪst
verbalist
ˈvɜːbəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FALLIBILIST

fallaway
fallback
fallboard
fallen
fallen arch
faller
fallfish
fallibilism
fallibility
fallible
fallibleness
fallibly
falling
falling band
falling evil
falling market
falling sickness
falling star
falling-off
falling-out

WORDS THAT END LIKE FALLIBILIST

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automobilist
canophilist
cartophilist
civilist
facsimilist
Familist
homilist
mercantilist
miserabilist
Negrophilist
nihilist
ophiophilist
possibilist
probabilist
profilist
pteridophilist
pugilist
scripophilist
tactilist
timbrophilist

Synonyms and antonyms of fallibilist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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The translations of fallibilist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fallibilist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

fallibilist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falibilista
570 millions of speakers

English

fallibilist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fallibilist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

fallibilist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

fallibilist
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falível
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

fallibilist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faillibiliste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fallibilist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fallibilistischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

fallibilist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

fallibilist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fallibilist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

fallibilist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fallibilist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फेडीबिलिस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fallibilist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fallibilista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fallibilist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

fallibilist
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fallibilist
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

fallibilist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fallibilist
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

fallibilist
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

fallibilist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fallibilist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FALLIBILIST»

The term «fallibilist» is used very little and occupies the 190.120 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FALLIBILIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fallibilist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALLIBILIST»

Discover the use of fallibilist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fallibilist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Companion to Epistemology
However, such accounts can still be fallibilist in a closely related sense of the term. Any account of knowledge will require that the belief in question be true. It will also require the satisfaction of certain other requirements, some having to do  ...
Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, 2009
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Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics
Fallibilism and Absolutism The first philosopher of mathematics to explicitly state the importance of the absolutist-fallibilist dichotomy is Imre Lakatos (1978b), who relates it to the ancient controversy between dogmatists and skeptics. Lakatos ...
Paul Ernest, 1998
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Handbook of Epistemology
Like the Cartesian and the skeptic, the fallibilist takes for granted that truth is correspondence. Unlike the Cartesian and the skeptic, the fallibilist rejects INF. This allows that we can obtain knowledge about the external world through the fallible ...
I. Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Woleński, 2004
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Common Sense, Science and Scepticism: A Historical ...
But so far the fallibilist has done neither of these things: so far the fallibilist principle R* is completely unjustified.' How should the fallibilist respond here? It is true that (so far at least) we have nojustification of/?*. But the demand for one takes ...
Alan Musgrave, 1993
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The Structure of Justification
Indeed, fallibilist foundationalism can even account for coherence as a mark of justification; the chief tension between the two theories concerns not whether coherence is necessary for justification, but whether it is a basic source of it.
Robert Audi, 1993
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Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics
Chapter 4 approach to the question of assertibility conditions is that Dummett is not sufficiently fallibilist. Although Dummett has given up the basic idea of verificationism in favor of a falsifications! theory of meaning, Habermas argues that "it ...
Maeve Cooke, 1997
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Spirituality in College Students' Lives: Translating ...
Conclusion By adopting the fallibilist characteristics of institutional partisanship, individual freedom, and inclusive community, Christian colleges can achieve faithful persistence in the postmodern turn. Furthermore, I believe that the fallibilist ...
Alyssa Bryant Rockenbach, Matthew J. Mayhew, 2012
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Diversity, Modesty, Liberty: An Essay on State Neutrality
For built right into the very notion of a belief's being held in a Fallibilist fashion seems to be an admission that the burden of proof set forth in Burden has not been discharged. When the state claims for itself a monopoly on the use of legitimate ...
Vaughn Bryan Baltzly, 2008
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Spirituality in Higher Education: Translating Research into ...
Conclusion By adopting the fallibilist characteristics of institutional partisanship, individual freedom, and inclusive community, Christian colleges can achieve faithful persistence in the postmodern turn. Furthermore, I believe that the fallibilist ...
Alyssa Bryant Rockenbach, Matthew J. Mayhew, 2012
10
Fallibilism and Warrant
transcendent epistemic criteria. Possibly for Jason, the implicit fallibilist sensibility here is that because normative judgments about the epistemic qualities of one's beliefs depend on the epistemic standards of one's community, then one should ...
Myron A. Penner, 2007

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FALLIBILIST»

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Richard Rorty's legacy
In other words, Rorty was a fallibilist and a conceptual pluralist, or anti-reductionist. Incidentally, though Rorty placed himself firmly on the ... «Open Democracy, Jul 14»
2
Defeating aging, and the avenues ahead of us: Part 1
I think that taking the fallibilist approach is the best way to go. That is, you can be passionate, active, and dedicated to a concept and still be ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Feb 14»
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Drawn to Controversy
In that sense, I'm a fallibilist: I think the history of science is a grand history of failures, and that's a great thing. It keeps science moving. «Scientist, Jan 14»
4
In Praise of the Clash of Cultures
If considerations such as these lead you to concede that your present convictions could be false, then you are a fallibilist. And if you are a ... «New York Times, Sep 12»
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Will Wilkinson Calls Ron Paul "an Embarrassment to the Creed" of …
... between the hardcore, no-compromise, anti-statist Rothbardian and the more classical liberal, utilitarian, fallibilist, and prudential Hayekian. «Reason Online, Sep 11»
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Review by Daniele Santoro
Third, it recognizes a role to counterexamples and underlies the fallibilist conception of rationality defended in the book: inferentialist ... «Metapsychology, Mar 10»
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A Postsecular World Society? On the Philosophical Significance of …
For fallibilist consciousness naturally belongs to postmetaphysical thinking. EM: You return to Karl Jaspers's genealogical theory of the Axial ... «Monthly Review, Mar 10»

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