Fallibilism and the flexibility of epistemic modals

Philosophical Studies 167 (3):597-606 (2014)
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It is widely acknowledged that epistemic modals admit of inter-subjective flexibility. This paper introduces intra-subjective flexibility for epistemic modals and draws on this flexibility to argue that fallibilism is consistent with the standard account of epistemic modals

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