Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reliabilism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-li-a-bil-ism
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"He now rejects reliabilism in favor of a socio-historical conception of knowledge."
"Notice that both the truth-preservation account of logical consequence and GTT constitute a very specific version of reliabilism, where the relevant property a valid argument is reliable about is truth (rather than knowledge, unfalsity, truth together with unfalsity, etc.)"

Etymology

Etymology tree English reliable Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English reliabilism From reliable + -ism.

Usage

Inflected Forms

reliabilisms (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

reliabilist

Questions

What does reliabilism mean?: Any of a group of related doctrines holding that knowledge or justified belief must be the result of a reliable process
Where does reliabilism come from?: Etymology tree English reliable Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English reliabilism From reliable + -ism.

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