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The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.
Lewis Thomas

Meaning of "fallibility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FALLIBILITY

fallibility  [ˌfælɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FALLIBILITY

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fallibility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FALLIBILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fallibilism

Fallibilism is the philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world, and yet still be justified in holding their incorrect beliefs. In the most commonly used sense of the term, this consists in being open to new evidence that would contradict some previously held position or belief, and in the recognition that "any claim justified today may need to be revised or withdrawn in light of new evidence, new arguments, and new experiences." This position is taken for granted in the natural sciences. In another sense, it refers to the consciousness of "the degree to which our interpretations, valuations, our practices, and traditions are temporally indexed" and subject to historical flux and change. Such "time-responsive" fallibilism consists in an openness to the confirmation of a possibility that one anticipates or expects in the future. Some fallibilists argue that absolute certainty about knowledge is impossible. As a formal doctrine, fallibilism is most strongly associated with Charles Sanders Peirce, John Dewey, and other pragmatists, who use it in their attacks on foundationalism.

Definition of fallibility in the English dictionary

The definition of fallibility in the dictionary is tendency to make mistakes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FALLIBILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FALLIBILITY

fallaway
fallback
fallboard
fallen
fallen arch
faller
fallfish
fallibilism
fallibilist
fallible
fallibleness
fallibly
falling
falling band
falling evil
falling market
falling sickness
falling star
falling-off
falling-out

WORDS THAT END LIKE FALLIBILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of fallibility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fallibility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FALLIBILITY

Find out the translation of fallibility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fallibility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fallibility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

易犯错误
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falibilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

fallibility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अशुद्ध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عصمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ошибочность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falibilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভ্রান্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faillibilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kejatuhan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fehlbarkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

誤りやすいこと
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오류 가능성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kejaba
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm hỏng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நம்பகத்தன்மையின்மையின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्खलनशीलता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yanılabilirlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fallibilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zawodność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

помилковість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

failibilitatea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σφαλερότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

feilbaarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fallibility
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

feilbarlighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fallibility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FALLIBILITY»

The term «fallibility» is regularly used and occupies the 62.274 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FALLIBILITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fallibility

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6 QUOTES WITH «FALLIBILITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fallibility.
1
Gerald Brenan
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
2
Vincent Van Gogh
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
3
Tom Hiddleston
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
4
Eliot Spitzer
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
5
Lewis Thomas
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.
6
Justin Welby
Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALLIBILITY»

Discover the use of fallibility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fallibility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How we know what isn't so: the fallibility of human reason ...
Discusses the processes through which we become convinced of the validity of questionable or false beliefs such as special psychological powers and New Age health practices
Thomas Gilovich, 1993
2
Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror
And yet his differences with George Bush, another proponent of freedom, are profound. In this powerful essay Soros spells out his views and how they differ from the president's.
George Soros, 2007
3
Flight from Fallibility: How Theory Triumphed Over ...
Perkinson provides an original historical interpretation that shows how our intellectual, political, economic, and social institutions emerged out of and are based upon the acceptance of human fallibility.
Henry J. Perkinson, 2002
4
Fortunate Fallibility: Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin
Jason Mahn traces the concept of the fortunate Fall through the later writings of Soren Kierkegaard, examining Kierkegaard's blunt critique of Idealism's justification of evil, as well as his playful deconstruction of romantic celebrations ...
Jason A. Mahn, 2011
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Human Fallibility: The Ambiguity of Errors for Work and Learning
This book provides theoretical concepts and empirical evidence for the question under what conditions professionals or teams of professionals are able to learn from their errors at work.
Johannes Bauer, Christian Harteis, 2012
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Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine: Fallibility and ...
Reviews the conceptual basis of evidence-based medicine and the ethical issues it gives rise to.
Kenneth W. Goodman, 2003
7
Faith, Fallibility, and the Virtue of Anxiety: An Essay in ...
My point is that human fallibility itself is an ineluctable element in the body of evidence that our erstwhile believer must consider in forming her beliefs in the first place. In other words, epistemic anxiety does not require that she paradoxically ...
Derek Malone-France, 2012
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Fallibility
Poems that evoke growth from childhood to sex and from being single to marriage and motherhood.
‎2009
9
Summary of The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War ...
This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case George Soros’s book.
Capitol Reader, 2013
10
Aspects of Knowing: Epistemological Essays
Call this the Fallibility Axiom. It says in effect that a “warrant” is “fallible”. This principle trades on an obvious feature of many senses of “justification”, and it adds the supposition that truth plus this sort of justification is sufficient for knowledge.
‎2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FALLIBILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fallibility is used in the context of the following news items.
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Muguruza gets tough
... direction on her hard-hitting becoming haphazard and Radwanska becoming more solid, encouraged by sudden fallibility across the net. «expressandstar.com, Jul 15»
2
Independent Shakespeare Co.'s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING …
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is a very human story about the fallibility of lovesick hearts." ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM AND CAST. «Broadway World, Jul 15»
3
The Steel City hero returns with new album Hollow Meadows in …
The follow-up to the brilliant Standing At The Sky's Edge is said to deal with "ageing, fallibility and relationships, much of the album shares a ... «Gigwise, Jul 15»
4
One Man's Opinion: A closer look at morality in the US
He asked if I believe that the ultimate determination of right and wrong is beyond human fallibility, which really asks if I believe that the source of ... «TriValley Central, Jul 15»
5
The Rabbinical Council of America and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah: A …
... that the Torah contains numerous genuine contradictions, anachronisms and other errors resulting from the fallibility of these human authors. «Jewish Link of New Jersey, Jul 15»
6
After the election, no one trusts the polls. But why did we ever?
It was one more pointer to a level of polling fallibility that has caused heart-searching this year, from Israel – where even the exit polls failed to ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
7
Wimbledon 2015: Roger Federer beats Gilles Simon to reach semi …
... Murray might be able to spot the merest hints of fallibility. Even as Federer eased his way through, there were mistakes. Three times he hit the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
8
ASUS Announces the Strix GTX 980 Ti Video Card
... utilized on the Strix GTX 980 Ti, the industry's first 100%-automated manufacturing process that removes human fallibility from the production ... «Legit Reviews, Jul 15»
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Scott Stallings Suspended For Violating Drug Policy, As the PGA …
But it also ignores the fallibility of humans and the drive of athletes. Gary Player, brimming with knowledge and willing to share it, speculated a ... «USGolfTV, Jul 15»
10
'Cartel Land' and the desperation of citizen soldiers
Mexico is once again painted as nation let down by the fallibility of its leaders. America, on the other hand, is represented by a reactionary ... «San Diego CityBEAT, Jul 15»

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