Reliabilism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Reliabilism is a noun meaning (epistemology) Any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process.
Meaning
(epistemology) Any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process.
Example Sentences
He now rejects reliabilism in favor of a socio-historical conception of knowledge.
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.)
Word Forms
- reliabilisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include knowledge, evidentialism, probabilism, verificationism, relationism, probabiliorism.
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