CONCEPT
Fallibilism
Peirce's doctrine that no belief is immune to revision — not skepticism denying knowledge, but the insistence that knowledge is provisional, held subject to future evidence.
Fallibilism is Peirce's characteristic epistemological stance: the recognition that any particular belief may be mistaken, coupled with the insistence that this does not prevent knowledge, only absolute certainty. Fallibilism is not skepticism. It does not deny that knowledge is possible. It denies only that any belief is final — that any claim is immune to revision in the light of future evidence. The appropriate attitude toward one's beliefs is not confidence but provisional commitment: the belief is held because it has survived the tests so far, but with awareness that future tests may require revision. This provisional attitude is what sustains the self-correcting process that Peirce identified as essential to the method of science.
In The You On AI Field Guide
The AI system's output systematically undermines the fallibilistic attitude. The output is presented without hedging, without qualification, without the marks of uncertainty that characterize genuinely fallibilistic communication. When Claude proposes an argument, the argument is presented as though settled. When it suggests a connection, the connection is presented