Combining Philosophers

Ideas for E.M. Cioran, Isaiah Berlin and Charles Sanders Peirce

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

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Convictions are failures to study anything thoroughly [Cioran]

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Opinions are fine, but having convictions means something has gone wrong [Cioran]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

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Inquiry is not standing on bedrock facts, but standing in hope on a shifting bog [Peirce]

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Reasoning is based on statistical induction, so it can't achieve certainty or precision [Peirce]

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Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]