more from this thinker | more from this text
Full Idea
The attainment of settled beliefs is a progressive matter; there is no belief so settled as not to be exposed to further inquiry.
Gist of Idea
No belief can be so settled that it is not subject to further inquiry
Source
John Dewey (The Later Works (17 vols, ed Boydston) [1930], 12:16), quoted by David Hildebrand - Dewey 2 'Knowledge'
Book Ref
Hildebrand,David: 'Dewey' [One World 2008], p.61
A Reaction
A nice pragmatist mantra, but no scientists gets a research grant to prove facts which have been securely established for a very long time. It is neurotic to keep returning to check that you have locked your front door. Dewey introduced 'warranted'.
| 12569 | Knowledge by senses is less certain than that by intuition or reason, but it is still knowledge [Locke] |
| 14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
| 14770 | Reasoning is based on statistical induction, so it can't achieve certainty or precision [Peirce] |
| 19107 | Inquiry is not standing on bedrock facts, but standing in hope on a shifting bog [Peirce] |
| 22870 | No belief can be so settled that it is not subject to further inquiry [Dewey] |
| 17637 | The most obvious beliefs are not infallible, as other obvious beliefs may conflict [Russell] |
| 12897 | To say S knows P, but cannot eliminate not-P, sounds like a contradiction [Lewis] |
| 2755 | If senses are fallible, then being open to correction is an epistemological virtue [Dancy,J] |
| 6898 | Fallibilism is the view that all knowledge-claims are provisional [Mautner] |
| 19701 | Fallibilism is consistent with dogmatism or scepticism, and is not alternative to them [Dougherty] |
| 19700 | It is best to see the fallibility in the reasons, rather than in the agents or the knowledge [Dougherty] |
| 19702 | We can't normally say that we know something 'but it might be false' [Dougherty] |
| 19718 | Indefeasibility does not imply infallibility [Grundmann] |