Abstract
It may be true that we are epistemically in the dark about various things. Does this fact ground the
truth of fallibilism? No. Still, even the most zealous skeptic will probably grant that it is not clear
that one can be incognizant of their own occurrent phenomenal conscious mental goings-on. Even
so, this does not entail infallibilism. Philosophers who argue that occurrent conscious experiences
play an important epistemic role in the justification of introspective knowledge assume that there
are occurrent beliefs. But this assumption is false. This paper argues that there are no occurrent
beliefs. And it considers the epistemic consequences this result has for views that attempt to show
that at least some phenomenal beliefs are infallible.