Just as individual impressions are corrigible, the system as a whole is fallible. From LearnThat.org.
A corrigible defect. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a corrigible criminal. ,a corrigible theory. From Dictionary.com.
However, there is nothing in this kind of corrigible introspection to worry methodological naturalists. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism] Reference
In short, the categories must be regarded as corrigible. From Wordnik.com. [METAPHOR IN PHILOSOPHY] Reference
Vagabond, shou'd be as faulty and as corrigible as receiving stolen. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
Impressions are corrigible, however, and they can be measured by a standard. From Wordnik.com. [David Hume] Reference
Approximations may be corrigible, incorrigible in practice, or incorrigible in principle. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Science] Reference
The problem is that virtue and vice affects who we are in that it makes us more or less corrigible. From Wordnik.com. [TEXAS FAITH: Is shame still part of our culture? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference
"The most corrigible case what comes to this court," says Mr. Stubbs, bowing knowingly to the judge. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Courtland did not prove corrigible, why, there was still as good fish in the sea as ever was caught. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
Evitable, unfortunately, is one of those words like corrigible, rendered all but obsolete by the in - prefix. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Bolotsky: Screening Liberally Big Picture: Empathizing with Margot At The Wedding] Reference
These theories have certain qualities: they are supportable by empiric studies, they are falsifiableat least in part, and they are corrigible. From Wordnik.com. [The Poynter Center on "Intelligent Design, Science Education, and Public Reason" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Thus, Darwin is read as literal, fallible and corrigible. From Wordnik.com. [Uncommon Descent] Reference
He has not dragged into light a bashful and corrigible sinner. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
There are certain faults which are corrigible mental defects on which. From Wordnik.com. [A Lecture on the Study of History] Reference
It is possible to make every incorrigible child corrigible by a parental spirit of discipline. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Era Vol. 2 No. 2] Reference
You have unburdened your own soul in that matter, and if they had been corrigible, you would have helped a good many more. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe] Reference
And Barbara, covered by the network of sunlight, could not help impatience with a suffering which seemed to her so corrigible by action. From Wordnik.com. [The Patrician] Reference
There are certain faults which are corrigible mental defects on which I ought to say a few denouncing words, because they are common to us all. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Modern history] Reference
Although science is corrigible, across cosmology, astronomy, geology and physics a remarkably coherent picture of the age of the universe emerges. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons to Believe -] Reference
Chorazin and Bethsaida for obstinate and in corrigible sinners; they would not only have repented at last, but much sooner, and without so much ado. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 07.] Reference
The second is a theory and is both contingent and corrigible, but there is much evidence for it and it has been tested extensively since it was put forward. From Wordnik.com. [RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates] Reference
These qualities make the creature unserviceable in active war or in agriculture, and they seem to be so fixed in the blood that they are not to any extent corrigible. From Wordnik.com. [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference
In such open-ended processes, participants "recognize that the interpretations they reach are always situated, corrigible and subject to re-interpretation" (ibid, 231). From Wordnik.com. [Nonprofit Online News] Reference
Our democratic system of government is the worst in the world, if a tenth part of what I hear is true; and before I admit that, I'll see whether its abuses are corrigible. From Wordnik.com. [Gulmore, The Boss] Reference
Wsop bracelet corrigible rebroadcast unloading abhorred riders. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Gerrymandering:] Reference
Poland, "and is somewhat sceptical about their being corrigible. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)] Reference
"Actually, I'm very corrigible, when the right person comes along. From Wordnik.com. [Drowning World]
… Errors are corrigible, and certainly forgivable; but error is sewn deep into the prose here, and is not easily unpicked.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Hamptons Renaissance] Reference
Are bishops corrigible or placable?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
His corrigible neck, his face subdued. From Wordnik.com. [Antony and Cleopatra] Reference
His corrigible neck, his face subdud. From Wordnik.com. [Act IV. Scene XII. Antony and Cleopatra] Reference
2910: His corrigible necke, his face subdu'de. From Wordnik.com. [Antony and Cleopatra (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
3. corrigible. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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