reliabilism

R1E1L1I1A1B3I1L1I1S1M3

noun

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

Scrabble 15
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounreliabilism (countable and uncountable, plural reliabilisms)

plural reliabilisms

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

    He now rejects reliabilism in favor of a socio-historical conception of knowledge.

    2008 November 28, Albert Casullo, “Analyzing a priori knowledge”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI
    1 more example

    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.)

    2018, Jeremy Wyatt, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen, Nathan Kellen, Pluralisms in Truth and Logic, page 270

Origin

From reliable + -ism.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

reliabilism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reliabilism

MLA

“reliabilism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reliabilism. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reliabilism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reliabilism.

Source: reliabilism on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.