Insofar as knowledge is justified based on a learning process that overcomes previous errors but does not protect from future ones, any current state of knowledge remains relative to the best possible epistemic situation at the time (Habermas, 2003, p. 41).
As Habermas emphasizes, all truth claims are ultimately validated discursively through discussion and debate. Even when the intransitive world appears to refute some theory, say through failed experiments, it is the community of scientists who decide why the experiment is failing and at what point it becomes conclusive (Collins, 1985). Thus, there is always an element of consensus about truth claims.
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