Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being corrigible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.
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- noun The quality or state of being
corrigible .
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Examples
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"A man's worth is measured in terms of his corrigibility," they said.
Ain't Comin' Back 2010
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There is a distinction between the corrigibility of a perception and its being a representation of something external to itself.
David Hume Morris, William Edward 2009
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We have learned from the writings of philosophers of science since the 1960s to emphasize corrigibility and anti-foundationalism in our interpretation of scientific knowledge; but a coherentist epistemology and a perspective of causal realism provides a philosophically powerful grounding for social science knowledge.
What is social scientific knowledge? Daniel Little 2008
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We have learned from the writings of philosophers of science since the 1960s to emphasize corrigibility and anti-foundationalism in our interpretation of scientific knowledge; but a coherentist epistemology and a perspective of causal realism provides a philosophically powerful grounding for social science knowledge.
Archive 2008-09-01 Daniel Little 2008
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The three properties which Peirce had ascribed to scientific method in the context of experimental practice, namely fallibilism, corrigibility and progressivism, could be obtained in the application of critical intelligence to social and political problems.
Sidney Hook Sidorsky, David 2008
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Yet if we do not learn to look for corrigibility, fallibility, and real human individuals, we will continue to set death traps for ourselves.
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As a people we never demanded serious attention to the corrigibility of our opponents.
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