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Infallibilism is the epistemological view that propositional knowledge is incompatible with the possibility of being wrong.

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Infallibilism is the epistemological view that propositional knowledge is incompatible with the possibility of being wrong.

==Definition== In philosophy, infallibilism (sometimes called "epistemic infallibilism") is the view that knowing the truth of a proposition is incompatible with there being any possibility that the proposition could be false. This is typically understood as indicating that for a belief to count as knowledge, one's evidence or justification must provide one with such strong grounds that the belief must be true, or equivalently, that it is completely impossible for it to be false. The infallibility of such a belief may also mean that it cannot even be doubted.

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