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All the ideas for 'Fallibilism', 'Letter to Clerk Maxwell' and 'The Apology'

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5 ideas

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]

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]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

1655	If goodness needs true opinion but not knowledge, you can skip the 'examined life' [Vlastos on Plato]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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By 'force' I mean the sources of all actions - sometimes called 'powers' by their outcomes [Breheny]