fallible
It's not easy to admit fallibility.
They knew all along that human fallibility had contributed to the deaths.
The havoc created by the virus provides a further reminder of the fallibility of electronic information systems.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Weakness and vulnerability
Achilles heel
asthenia
at a low ebbidiom
atonic
atony
fragility
frail
glass jaw
helpless
helplessly
shakiness
shaky
sitting duck
sitting target
soft target
weakling
weakly
weakness
weedy
wetly

Examples of fallibility

fallibility
It clearly allows for the possibility of legislative fallibility; legislators may create statutory rules whose applications they-individually or collectively- understand badly or not at all.
Secondly, the fallibility of the residents must be honoured while the care-givers struggle to preserve the strengths of the self (or selves) that remain.
He also discussed the place of conjectural thinking and the fallibility of mathematical reasoning.
Restorative nostalgia envisions the reconstruction of a lost past, while reflective nostalgia centres on the fallibility of memory and its loss.
This concern in essence relates to the fallibility of the assumption of zero mean in the error correction term, that is, the assumption of (1).
Such considerations may include the facts of scarcity, noncompliance, indeterminacy, human vulnerability, and fallibility.
He advocates the idea that fallibility can be reconciled with the "a priori" and that conceptual 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31.
Instead, we have to reckon with finitude and fallibility without surrendering reasonable hope for empirical knowledge.
People who put their trust in ' practical ethicists ' and their theories are often quite unaware of our fallibility in this regard.
Then, the group leader facilitates a discussion of "big picture" issues such as incompetence/confidence, perfectionism/fallibility, and guilt/absolution.
For we have tasted our freedom and reason, as well as our own fallibility.
Conversely, the active form is often used when science writers want to emphasize their fallibility.
Technology, it is claimed, is not just an agent of human progress but can also present opportunities for displays of human sin and fallibility.
Given human fallibility, similar errors are likely to occur in the future.
All we can do is muddle forward with some courage and an awareness of fallibility.
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