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The Traditions

Critical Fallibilism is read through, and against, three other bodies of thought. Each entry in this volume is tagged with the traditions it belongs to; here is how the four fit together across 217 entries.

  1. CF 210 entries

    Critical Fallibilism

    Elliot Temple’s philosophy: evaluate ideas with decisive criticism and accept only those with no known errors.

    How CF relates The spine of this volume — the synthesis that the other three traditions feed into and are read through.

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  2. CR 75 entries

    Critical Rationalism

    Karl Popper’s epistemology: knowledge grows by conjecture and refutation, never by justification or induction.

    How CF relates CF inherits CR’s core: knowledge by conjecture and refutation, never justification. CF sharpens it into a strictly binary evaluation of ideas.

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  3. ToC 48 entries

    Theory of Constraints

    Eli Goldratt’s management theory: a system’s output is governed by its single binding constraint.

    How CF relates CF borrows Goldratt’s constraint thinking and applies it to epistemology — error correction has a single binding bottleneck to find and exploit.

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  4. Oism 41 entries

    Objectivism

    Ayn Rand’s philosophy: reason as the means of knowledge, oriented to an objective, context-bound reality.

    How CF relates CF takes Objectivism’s commitment to reason and an objective reality, while parting ways with its foundationalist, infallibilist streak.

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