Single Idea 14768

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism]

Full Idea

Infallibility in scientific matters seems to me irresistibly comical.

Gist of Idea

Infallibility in science is just a joke

Source

Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.3)

Book Reference

Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.3


Related Idea

Idea 14770 Reasoning is based on statistical induction, so it can't achieve certainty or precision [Peirce]