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All the ideas for 'Fallibilism', 'Warrant and Proper Function' and 'Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis'

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

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Fallibilism is consistent with dogmatism or scepticism, and is not alternative to them [Dougherty]

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It is best to see the fallibility in the reasons, rather than in the agents or the knowledge [Dougherty]

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

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

6356	Maybe a reliable justification must come from a process working with its 'proper function' [Plantinga, by Pollock/Cruz]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

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Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]