Infallibilism and Easy Counter-Examples

Grazer Philosophische Studien 95 (4):475-499 (2018)
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Abstract

Infallibilism is commonly rejected because it is apparently subject to easy counter-examples. I describe a strategy that infallibilists can use to resist this objection. Because the sentences used in the counter-examples to express evidence and belief are context-sensitive, the infallibilist can insist that such counter-examples trade on a vacillation between different readings of these sentences. I describe what difficulties await those who try to produce counter-examples against which the proposed strategy is ineffective.

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Alex Davies
University of Tartu

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