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    Incorrigibility by others is a social epistemic property, not a truth-tracking one; isolation from correction is a marker of dogmatism, not justification (Wittgenstein, On Certainty §204).

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    Key Terms

    On Certainty(The specific philosophical work being referenced)
    A book Wittgenstein wrote near the end of his life that explores what we can be absolutely sure about and how certainty actually works in real life, rather than just in theory.
    Social epistemic property(as used in epistemology)
    A characteristic of a belief that depends on how people interact with each other in communities, rather than on whether the belief is actually true.
    Wittgenstein
    Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who fundamentally changed how people think about language and meaning in the 20th century. He argued that many philosophical problems arise from misunderstanding how words actually work in everyday life, rather than from deep metaphysical mysteries. His ideas influenced not just philosophy but also mathematics, logic, and even how people approach psychology and artificial intelligence today.
    dogmatism(epistemology)
    The epistemological position that one can know that one is not in various Cartesian skeptical scenarios, such as being a brain in a vat

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    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
    incorrigibility(Types of epistemic privilege for basic beliefs)
    An epistemic privilege whereby a belief cannot be corrected by others
    justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
    The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.
    truth-tracking(as used in epistemology)
    The goal of correctly identifying what is actually true in the world, like a belief that accurately matches reality.

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