Fallibilism
The view that our beliefs are revisable and that confidence is never final.
What it commits you to
Fallibilism holds that no belief is immune to revision, which makes it the working epistemology of any empirical science and of any system that must update itself. In alignment it cuts against both the claim that a specification is complete and the claim that an evaluation is decisive. Its cost is that it gives no account of when to stop revising, which is a live governance problem.
Which realms lean on this
Philosophy carries the arguments the other four kinds are downstream of — what an agent is, what a person owes, what a rule is for.
philosophy · 8 realms — The Care Weft, The Contractual Court, The Existential Wilds, The Kantian Citadel, The Longview Foundry, The Middle Kingdom, The Pragmatic Wharf, The Sangha Terraces.
See also
Pragma
philosophyThe Stoics' term for a maxim of conduct meant to guide action rather than to describe the world.
Dialogue
philosophyInquiry conducted by question and answer rather than by assertion.
Normativity
philosophyThe property of being able to count as a reason for action.
Legitimacy
philosophyThe right to be obeyed, held by a rule or authority rather than by its author.