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Fallibility

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fal·li·ble  (fl-bl)
adj.
1. Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible.
2. Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses.
[Middle English, from Medieval Latin fallibilis, from Latin fallere, to deceive.]
falli·bili·ty, falli·ble·ness n.
falli·bly adv.
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Noun1.fallibility - the likelihood of making errors
undependability, undependableness, unreliability, unreliableness - the trait of not being dependable or reliable
errancy - fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err
infallibility - the quality of never making an error


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A CELEBRATED Divine having affirmed the fallibility of the Bible, was asked why, then, he preached the religion founded upon it.
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An admirable faculty, if it were infallible; but, as this degree of perfection is not even claimed by more than one mortal being; so from the fallibility of such acute discernment have arisen many sad mischiefs and most grievous heart-aches to innocence and virtue.
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In 1806 Pfuel had been one of those responsible, for the plan of campaign that ended in Jena and Auerstadt, but he did not see the least proof of the fallibility of his theory in the disasters of that war.
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