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fal·li·ble

(făl′ə-bəl)

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.]

fal′li·bil′i·ty, fal′li·ble·ness n.

fal′li·bly adv.

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fallible

(ˈfælɪbəl)

adj

1. capable of being mistaken; erring

2. liable to mislead

[C15: from Medieval Latin fallibilis, from Latin fallere to deceive]

ˌfalliˈbility, ˈfallibleness n

ˈfallibly adv

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fal•li•ble

(ˈfæl ə bəl)

adj.

1. liable to err, esp. in being deceived or mistaken.

2. liable to be erroneous or false; not accurate: fallible information.

[1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin fallibilis= Latin fall(ere) to deceive + -ibilis -ible]

fal`li•bil′i•ty, fal′li•ble•ness, n.

fal′li•bly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	fallible - likely to fail or make errors; "everyone is fallible to some degree" infallible - incapable of failure or error; "an infallible antidote"; "an infallible memory"; "the Catholic Church considers the Pope infallible"; "no doctor is infallible"
	2.	fallible - wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity" frail, imperfect, weak human - having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings; "human beings"; "the human body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty"

fallible

adjective imperfect, weak, uncertain, ignorant, mortal, frail, erring, prone to error They are only human and all too fallible.
perfect, divine, impeccable, faultless, infallible, superhuman, unerring, omniscient, unimpeachable

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Translations

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fehlbar

faillible

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fallibile

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spējīgs kļūdīties

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可能犯错的易错的

fallible

[ˈfæləbl] ADJ → falible

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fallible

[ˈfælɪb^əl] adj [person] → faillible; [system] → failliblefalling-off [ˌfɔːlɪŋˈɒf] n
a falling-off in sth [+ demand, income] → une diminution de qch; [+ standards] → une dégradation de qchfalling-out [ˌfɔːlɪŋˈaʊt] n (= disagreement) → brouille f
to have a falling-out with sb → se brouiller avec qnfallopian tube [fəˌləʊpiənˈtjuːb] n → trompe f de Fallope

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fallible

adj → fehlbar, nicht unfehlbar

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fallible

[ˈfæləbl] adj (frm) → fallibile

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fallible

(ˈfӕləbl) adjective

able or likely to make mistakes. Human beings are fallible.

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"If it is fallible," he replied, "there is the greater reason that I explain it, lest it mislead."

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She is a daughter of earth; you are an angel of heaven; only be not too austere in your divinity, and remember that I am a poor, fallible mortal.

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Worldly wisdom may force them into widely different ways of life; worldly wisdom may delude them, or may make them delude themselves, into contracting an earthly and a fallible union.

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He is very, distinctly fallible, but I think his life is not less instructive because in certain things it seems a failure.

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"The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted."

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Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinions, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

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The one thing he dreads (next to not being noticed) is to be proved fallible! If you once praise a picture, your character for infallibility hangs by a thread.

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Even here there might be a mistake: human prescriptions were fallible things: Lydgate had said that treatment had hastened death,--why not his own method of treatment?

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All his other senses may be fallible, but not his sense of smell, and so he makes assurance positive by the final test.

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And just because we are not misled by familiarity we find it easier to be cautious in interpreting behaviour when we are dealing with phenomena remote from those of our own minds: Moreover, introspection, as psychoanalysis has demonstrated, is extraordinarily fallible even in cases where we feel a high degree of certainty.

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But it has not been quite so often remarked that this power (fallible, like every other human attribute) is for the most part absolutely incapable of self-revision; and that when it has delivered an adverse opinion which by all human lights is subsequently proved to have failed, it is undistinguishable from prejudice, in respect of its determination not to be corrected.