In philosophy, incorrigibility is a property of a philosophical proposition, which implies that it is necessarily true simply by virtue of being believed.
In law, incorrigibility concerns patterns of repeated or habitual disobedience of minors with respect to their guardians.
[clarification needed] Laws framed around incorrigibility were formerly used against minors to commit them for longer periods of confinement for status offenses than an adult would have been for committing the same crimes, as contested in the landmark In re Gault decision from 1967.
Johnathan Harrison has argued[2] that "incorrigible" may be the wrong term, since it seems to imply (by the dictionary definition)[3] a sense that the beliefs cannot be changed, which isn't actually true.
Stated in incorrigible form, this could be: "That I believe that I exist implies that my belief is true".