1 (of a person) able to fail or likely to make mistakes, or (of an object or system) likely not to work satisfactorily: --
Human beings are fallible.
As spectators, we are fallible, restricted.
Both inferences are ampliative, and fallible.
Since both these inferences are logically invalid (and therefore fallible), why is a division between them necessary ?
When fallible humans attempt to write large programs to do complicated things, safety is very important.
We accept that our perceptual experiences are occasionally misleading, and so we can accept our sense of agency as fallible.
First, medical predictions of risk and benefit are fallible.
The process prescribed for the medical expert is one of positioning oneself as subjective guarantor of objective evidence, as fallible witness of an infallible device.
What is it, then, about the notion of ' fallible knowledge ' that many philosophers regard as defensible ?
