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[from 'Intro to Contemporary Epistemology' by Jonathan Dancy, in 11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism ]

Full Idea

In my view, once we admit that our beliefs about our sensory states are not infallible, incorrigibility would be a vice rather than a virtue.

Gist of Idea

If senses are fallible, then being open to correction is an epistemological virtue

Source

Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 4.3)

Book Reference

Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.64


A Reaction

This seems to be axiomatic among modern philosophers, and I certainly agree with it.