Infallibilism is the claim that knowledge requires that one satisfies some infallibility condition. I spell out three distinct such conditions: epistemic, evidential and modal infallibility. Epistemic infallibility turns out to be simply a consequence of epistemic closure, and is not infallibilist in any relevant sense. Evidential infallibilism i s unwarranted but it is not an satisfactory char...

the main condition for the realization of prophethood is the infallibility (ismah) of the chosen person; this idea is considered necessary in the viewpoint of the holy quran too. in proving the infallibility of prophets, in addition to rational (‘qli) reasons, narrative (naqli) reasons are also used. the subsequent matter in the field of infallibility is investigating the view of religious teac...

The paper discusses Bernard Bolzano’s epistemological approach to believing and knowing with regard to the epistemic requirements of an axiomatic model of science. It relates Bolzano’s notions of believing, knowing and evaluation to his notions of infallibility, immediacy and foundational truth. If axiomatic systems require their foundational truths to be infallibly known, this knowledge involv...