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infallibilism (countable and uncountable, plural infallibilisms)

  1. A doctrine of the infallibility of a certain person or thing, especially (Roman Catholicism) the doctrine of papal infallibility; support of this doctrine.
  2. (epistemology) The theory that belief in a true proposition counts as knowledge only if the proposition is necessarily entailed by the evidence or reasoning that supports this belief.

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