Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principle of papal infallibility; belief in or adherence to the dogma of infallibility.
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This method of finessing the issue drew the charge of “creeping infallibilism.”
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This method of finessing the issue drew the charge of “creeping infallibilism.”
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Ever since, infallibilism about introspection has been a mainstream position in philosophy of mind -- sometimes dominant, sometimes as now out of favor but nonetheless with prominent proponents.
Speedlinking 12/21/07 William Harryman 2007
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We have Pizarro's answer, which confuses together the positions of moral realism, moral sense theory, and moral infallibilism one can be a moral realist but not a moral sense theorist, or a moral sense theorist but not a moral realist, or both, or neither; and one can be either without believing that there is a 'royal road to moral truth'; or Anderson's bizarre argument about the probability of God's existence; or Kosslyn's odd talk about God and Supersets; or any number of others.
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So the optimistic realist who has discarded infallibilism has a problem ” the logical problem of truthlikeness.
Truthlikeness Oddie, Graham 2007
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