Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Fallibilism' and 'Testability and Meaning'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

14305

In the truth-functional account a burnt-up match was soluble because it never entered water [Carnap]

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

19702

We can't normally say that we know something 'but it might be false' [Dougherty]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]