Crossword clues for fallible
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fallible \Fal"li*ble\, a. [LL. fallibilis, fr. L. fallere to deceive: cf. F. faillible. See Fail.] Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Medieval Latin fallibilis "liable to err, deceitful," literally "that can be deceived," from Latin fallere "deceive" (see fail (v.)).
Wiktionary
a. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
WordNet
adj. likely to fail or be inaccurate; "everyone is fallible to some degree" [ant: infallible]
having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only human"; "frail humanity" [syn: frail, imperfect, weak]
Usage examples of "fallible".
To prohibit what they think pernicious, is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction.
This is the amount of certainty attainable by a fallible being, and this the sole way of attaining it.
He who believes in an infallible teacher of revelation cannot consistently listen to any fallible teacher with a view of getting more correct information than his infallible teacher gives him.
Therefore, the Catholic cannot listen to any fallible teacher with a view of getting more correct information about revealed truth than his Church gives him.
And even if we should happen to err on the side of mercy to ourselves, without our fault, justice is satisfied, being fallible like all things human.
But they cannot understand why God should allow the success of a system so important to depend on faithless or fallible men.
As a rule, the claim of infallibility is taken as a proof that the man who makes it is not only fallible, but something worse.
God may employ an imperfect and fallible man to preach for him, allowing a portion of his imperfections to mingle with his message, why might He not employ an imperfect and fallible man to write for Him, allowing a portion of his imperfections to mingle with his writing?
We may believe that the Apostles were fallible on matters of little moment, and have the fullest assurance possible that they were right on matters of great importance.
The early church survived when the fundamentals of faith offered adequate bonds to overcome dissension and unite the fallible and argumentative Christians.
Like Apollonius, we can kill the guilty, those people who have escaped the fallible justice of human courts.
For even if, among fallible mortals, there may frequently be ground for the hesitation of just men to award the punishment of death to their enemies, the most beautiful story, to my present knowledge, of all antiquity, that of Cleobis and Bito, might suggest to them the fitness on some occasions, of distributing without any hesitation the reward of death to their friends.
Scorpius and Sagittarius, but when dealing with distances measured in parsecs on the far end of a little-used blink route, one did not rely on optical readings as interpreted by the always fallible human mind.
In order to perform the enormous calculations required to test a theory, I have no recourse but to rely upon human mental abilities and hope for the best from the fallible calculational skills of trained people.
It was not that he told deliberate lies -he might have seemed more human and fallible if he did he merely made huge assumptions which then became Holy Writ, part of the un challengeable Gospel according to Dunster.