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Ideas for 'Philosophical Explanations', 'Russell's Mathematical Logic' and 'Concerning the Author'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

3570	Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M]
	Full Idea: Nozick suggests that knowledge is just belief which 'tracks the truth' (hence leaving out justification).
	From: report of Robert Nozick (Philosophical Explanations [1981]) by Michael Williams - Problems of Knowledge Ch. 2

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

14768	Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]
	Full Idea: Infallibility in scientific matters seems to me irresistibly comical.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.3)