reliabilism

English

Etymology

From reliable +‎ -ism.

Noun

reliabilism (countable and uncountable, plural reliabilisms)

  1. (epistemology) Any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process
    • 2008 November 28, Albert Casullo, “Analyzing a priori knowledge”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI:
      He now rejects reliabilism in favor of a socio-historical conception of knowledge.
    • 2018, Jeremy Wyatt, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen, Nathan Kellen, Pluralisms in Truth and Logic, page 270:
      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.)

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