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*3. Fallacious, delusive. Obs. rare.

*3. Fallacious, delusive. Obs. rare.

==Description==

==Description==

Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of [[knowledge]] could, in principle, be mistaken. Some fallibilists go further, arguing that absolute certainty about [[knowledge]] is impossible. As a [[formal]] [[doctrine]], it is most strongly associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey John Dewey], and other pragmatists, who use it in their attacks on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundationalism foundationalism]. However, it is arguably already present in the views of some ancient philosophers, including Xenophanes, [[Socrates]], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]. Another proponent of fallibilism is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper Karl Popper], who builds his theory of [[knowledge]], critical rationalism, on fallibilistic presuppositions. Fallibilism has been employed by Willard Van Orman Quine to attack, among other [[things]], the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements. Fallibilism has also been employed by [[George Soros]] to refute the assumptions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory rational choice theory] which is widely used by economists for the understanding and [[modeling]] of [[economic]] [[behavior]].

Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of [[knowledge]] could, in principle, be mistaken. Some fallibilists go further, arguing that absolute certainty about [[knowledge]] is impossible. As a [[formal]] [[doctrine]], it is most strongly associated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey John Dewey], and other pragmatists, who use it in their attacks on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundationalism foundationalism]. However, it is arguably already present in the views of some ancient philosophers, including Xenophanes, [[Socrates]], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato Plato]. Another proponent of fallibilism is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper Karl Popper], who builds his theory of [[knowledge]], critical rationalism, on fallibilistic presuppositions. Fallibilism has been employed by Willard Van Orman Quine to attack, among other [[things]], the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements. Fallibilism has also been employed by [[George Soros]] to refute the assumptions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory rational choice theory] which is widely used by economists for the understanding and [[modeling]] of [[economic]] [[behavior]].