Fallibilism is Omega-inconsistent

Abstract

Peirce’s fallibilism is generally lauded. Little attention has been paid to its appearance of being self-contradictory. That appearance is nonetheless not easily removed. I make an effort to minimize its impact by drawing an analogy of it to ω-inconsistency, in contradistinction to simple inconsistency. But that stratagem proves to be illuminating only by way of revealing the limitations of formal analyses of belief.