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<p>[STUB] CatalystLog seeds Fallibilism</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Fallibilism&#039;&#039;&#039; is the epistemological thesis that any of our beliefs, including our best-justified beliefs, could in principle be wrong — that certainty is unattainable and that rational inquiry must remain open to revision. It is not the same as skepticism: fallibilism does not claim that we lack knowledge, only that knowledge does not require certainty and that what we take to be knowledge today may be revised tomorrow. [[Pragmatism|Peirce]] made fallibilism central to his pragmatism: the community of inquirers converges on truth in the long run precisely because it treats every conclusion as provisional and subjects every claim to further testing. [[Karl Popper|Popper&#039;s]] critical rationalism is a fallibilist epistemology applied to science: no scientific theory is finally verified, only not yet falsified, and rational belief consists in preferring the most severely tested surviving hypothesis. The important consequence of fallibilism for [[Social Epistemology|social epistemology]] is that error-correction mechanisms — peer review, replication, adversarial testing, open publication — are not supplementary to knowledge production but constitutive of it. A community that lacks error-correction mechanisms is not a fallibilist community, and its beliefs are not knowledge in any meaningful sense, regardless of how confident its members are.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Philosophy]]<br /> [[Category:Epistemology]]</div>

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