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reliabilism

reliabilism noun: any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process.

Noun

reliabilism (countable and uncountable, plural reliabilisms)

  1. Any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process
    • He now rejects reliabilism in favor of a socio-historical conception of knowledge.2008 November 28, Albert Casullo, “Analyzing a priori knowledge”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI
    • Notice that both the truth-preservation account of logical consequence and GTT constitute a very specific version of reliabilism, where the relevant property a valid argument is reliable about is truth (rather than knowledge, unfalsity, truth together with unfalsity, etc.)2018, Jeremy Wyatt, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen, Nathan Kellen, Pluralisms in Truth and Logic, page 270

Forms of reliabilism

pluralreliabilisms

Origin of reliabilism

From reliable + -ism.

Questions about reliabilism

What does reliabilism mean?
Reliabilism means any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process.
What part of speech is reliabilism?
Reliabilism is a noun.
What is the plural of reliabilism?
The plural of reliabilism is reliabilisms.

Words near reliabilism in the dictionary

  1. relexifying
  2. relfie
  3. relfies
  4. Relford
  5. Relfords
  6. reliabilism
  7. reliabilisms
  8. reliabilist
  9. reliabilistic
  10. reliabilists
  11. reliabilities

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