Always correct, so always wrong (ACAW)

When you position yourself as always correct, all your claims must be true to prove this position; so this position itself will always be wrong given time.

References

While I haven’t found an identical take just yet, I’ve found the following related concepts:

• Socratic Paradoxes:
  • The Socratic Paradoxes
  • I know that I know nothing
  • Moral/Socratic intellectualism
  • Definist/Socratic fallacy
• Popper’s Falsifiability Principle:
  • Criterion of falsifiability
  • Basic Statements, Falsifiability and Convention
• Hume’s Problem of Induction: The Problem of Induction

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