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What is a fallibilist?

What is a fallibilist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An advocate or supporter of fallibilism
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This article examines avenues for resolving what appears to be an inherent tension in the fallibilist argument for pluralism in economics.
Viewing knowledge as a tool for enriching experience, pragmatism tends to be pluralistic, experimental, fallibilist, and naturalistic.
If considerations such as these lead you to concede that your present convictions could be false, then you are a fallibilist.
In other words, one can be fallibilist about both claims that are said to be apriori warranted and the a priori warrants for the claims.
If you are still a contented fallibilist, despite my plea to hear the sceptical argument afresh, you will probably be discontented with the Rule of Attention.
It was the notion of the merely relative and therefore non-apodictic a priori that deeply conditioned his notion of analyticity and allowed him to sidestep Quine's fallibilist argument in a most instructive fashion.

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