Fallibilism Fallibilism is the epistemological thesis that no belief (théorie, voir, thesis, et ainsi de suite) can ever be rationally supported or justified in a conclusive way. Always, there remains a possible doubt as to the truth of the belief. Fallibilism applies that assessment even to science’s best-entrenched claims and to people’s best-loved commonsense views. Some epistemologists have taken fallibilism to imply skepticism, according to which

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) Goethe defies most labels, and in the case of the label ‘philosopher’ he did so intentionally. “The scholastic philosophy,” in his opinion, “had, by the frequent darkness and apparent uselessness of its subject- matter, by its unseasonable application of a method in itself respectable, and by its too great extension over so many subjects, made itself foreign to the mass,

Platon: Meno de Platon présente des aspects de l'éthique socratique et de l'épistémologie platonicienne dans un dialogue fictif qui se déroule entre des événements politiques et des préoccupations culturelles importants au cours des dernières années de la vie de Socrate.. Cela commence brusquement, défi préemballé du débatteur de Meno sur la question de savoir si la vertu peut être enseignée, et devient rapidement une recherche ouverte et peu concluante de l’essence de cette « vertu » insaisissable.," ou

American Wilderness Philosophy Wilderness has been defined in diverse ways, but most famously in the Wilderness Act of 1964, which describes it “in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape … as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” The idea of wilderness

La théorie classique des concepts La théorie classique des concepts est l'une des cinq principales théories des concepts., les quatre autres étant des théories prototypes ou exemplaires, théories atomistiques, théorie-théories, et théories néoclassiques. La théorie classique implique que chaque concept complexe a une analyse classique, où une analyse classique d'un concept est une proposition donnant des conditions métaphysiquement nécessaires et conjointement suffisantes pour être en

Proper Functionalism ‘Proper Functionalism’ refers to a family of epistemological views according to which whether a belief (or some other doxastic state) was formed by way of properly functioning cognitive faculties plays a crucial role in whether it has a certain kind of positive epistemic status (such as being an item of knowledge, or a justified belief). Alvin Plantinga’s proper functionalist theory of knowledge has