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fallibility|fælɪˈbɪlɪtɪ| [f. next + -ity. Cf. F. faillibilité.] The state or fact of being fallible; liability to err or to mislead (in mod. usage limited to the former); an instance of the same.
1634‘E. Knott’ in Chillingworth's Relig. Prot. iv. §14 Nothing of the Churches Visibility or Invisibility, Fallibility or Infallibility. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. i. 131 Those Evidences of Fact..have or may have their several allays and fallibilities. 1725Watts Logic ii. ix. 409 Tho' there be a great deal of Fallibility in the Testimony of Men. 1775Harris Philos. Arrangem. Wks. (1841) 353 The fallibility which sometimes attends this method of distinguishing. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 216 The fallibility of judges and lawyers. 1859Mill Liberty i. 18 The fallibility of what is called the moral sense. |