CF·Dictionary

Guided Tours · 7 Paths

Reading Paths

The dictionary can be read in any order, but some ideas land better in sequence. Each path below is an ordered tour — follow the stops in turn to build a concept from its foundations, or jump straight to any entry that interests you.

  1. 01

    Start Here

    8 entries

    A gentle on-ramp to Critical Fallibilism: what it is, the traditions it draws on, and its central binary move.

    1. № 039 Critical Fallibilism
    2. № 078 Fallibilism
    3. № 041 Critical Rationalism
    4. № 060 Error
    5. № 042 Criticism
    6. № 217 Yes or No Philosophy
    7. № 135 Non-Refuted Idea
    8. № 143 Overreach
  2. 02

    CF Epistemology Core

    13 entries

    The heart of CF's theory of knowledge: decisive criticism, binary refutation, and the rejection of degrees of certainty.

    1. № 078 Fallibilism
    2. № 060 Error
    3. № 042 Criticism
    4. № 048 Decisive Criticism
    5. № 174 Refutation
    6. № 135 Non-Refuted Idea
    7. № 012 Binary Epistemology
    8. № 217 Yes or No Philosophy
    9. № 053 Digital Error Correction
    10. № 038 Credences and Degrees of Belief
    11. № 003 Argument Strength
    12. № 114 Justificationism
    13. № 098 IGC (Idea, Goal, Context)
  3. 03

    Decision-Making and Theory of Constraints

    14 entries

    From the broken math of weighing factors to binary evaluation, breakpoints, and the constraint-focused logic CF borrows from Goldratt.

    1. № 129 Multi-Factor Decision Making
    2. № 076 Factor
    3. № 054 Dimension
    4. № 119 Like Terms vs Unlike Terms
    5. № 213 Weighted Factor Analysis
    6. № 168 Quantitative vs Qualitative
    7. № 017 Breakpoint
    8. № 089 Good Enough
    9. № 013 Binary Evaluation
    10. № 130 Multiplication of Binaries
    11. № 032 Constraint
    12. № 085 Focusing on the Constraint
    13. № 082 Five Focusing Steps
    14. № 033 Constraint Applied to Epistemology
  4. 04

    From Popper to CF

    11 entries

    Trace the Critical Rationalist lineage CF extends: conjecture and refutation, falsifiability, anti-induction, and where CF breaks from Popper's residual weighing.

    1. № 041 Critical Rationalism
    2. № 029 Conjecture and Refutation
    3. № 102 Induction
    4. № 163 Problem of Induction
    5. № 080 Falsifiability
    6. № 037 Corroboration
    7. № 180 Severe Tests
    8. № 003 Argument Strength
    9. № 090 Gradations of Certainty
    10. № 217 Yes or No Philosophy
    11. № 039 Critical Fallibilism
  5. 05

    Learning, Practice and Overreach

    13 entries

    How CF applies error correction to skill-building: overreach, mastery and automatization, the knowledge skyscraper, and managing your success rate.

    1. № 143 Overreach
    2. № 064 Error Correction Capacity
    3. № 066 Error Rate
    4. № 184 Small Steps
    5. № 156 Practice
    6. № 123 Mastery
    7. № 005 Automatization
    8. № 030 Conscious Bottleneck
    9. № 116 Knowledge Skyscraper
    10. № 159 Prerequisites
    11. № 101 Incremental Progress
    12. № 194 Success Rate
    13. № 077 Failure Streak Recovery
  6. 06

    Paths Forward and Rational Discussion

    11 entries

    CF's methodology for keeping error correction alive in debate: idea trees, not blocking criticism, reusable refutations, and impasse chains.

    1. № 146 Paths Forward
    2. № 136 Not Blocking Error Correction
    3. № 197 Taking Responsibility for Ideas
    4. № 216 Written Public Positions
    5. № 118 Library of Criticisms
    6. № 182 Single Answer Principle
    7. № 095 Idea Trees
    8. № 045 Debate Policy
    9. № 099 Impasse
    10. № 100 Impasse Chains
    11. № 207 Unbounded Criticism
  7. 07

    Mind, Intuition and Emotion

    10 entries

    CF's account of conscious vs subconscious ideas, why suppressing intuition is false rationality, and how to resolve inner conflict rationally.

    1. № 031 Conscious Ideas
    2. № 190 Subconscious Ideas
    3. № 109 Intuition
    4. № 170 Rational Suppression (False Rationality)
    5. № 111 Intuitive-Explicit Conflict
    6. № 004 Articulation of Intuitions
    7. № 108 Introspection
    8. № 107 Internal Conflict
    9. № 165 Procrastination
    10. № 091 Gradual Transition Plan