Here is an impressively thorough and fantastically free treatise on the subject of fallibilism: https://www.iep.utm.edu/fallibil/
-
-
Absolutely. But "correct" in fallibilism means "fallibly correct" too! So "General Relativity is correct". That's unproblematic. But for many that means "The final word". Yet for us it means "Contains truth, we don't know which, and it's the best theory, yet ultimately false."
-
GR is obviously false as a theory of reality, but is it not inaccurate that no theory could be true? For instance, I think that my computer runs MacOS. Do you think that this theory is ultimately false?
- 23 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
You could be right, but you couldn’t know it with certainty.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Importantly, how can we know a theory is true? It is not possible. At some point an error may be discovered. It may fail to work under some fringe or boundary conditions. Or someone may come up with a better explanation that reaches far beyond.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.