The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And this shift from infallibilism to fallibilism has profound consequences not only for toleration, but also for the subordination of faith to reason and theology to philosophy.


Why Atheism? (ed. Pyr Books, 2000)

George H. Smith Quotes

The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty....

The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty....

The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty....

The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty....