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All the ideas for 'Fallibilism', 'An Enquiry' and 'What Metaphors Mean'

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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]

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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

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We treat testimony with a natural trade off of belief and caution [Reid, by Fricker,M]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor

7777	We accept a metaphor when we see the sentence is false [Davidson]

7775	Understanding a metaphor is a creative act, with no rules [Davidson]

7776	Metaphors just mean what their words literally mean [Davidson]