And yet I challenge the theologian to demonstrate the incorrectness of one of them without at the same time demonstrating the fallibility of the Bible and its unreliability as a historical record.
The adoption of the New would expose the errors of the Old, suggest the possible fallibility of the New, and sow the seeds of doubt.
Others admit the fallibility and human origin of the Old Testament and claim infallibility and divinity for the New Testament alone.
So that we have here error and fallibility recognized in the region of Universals, as well as in that of Particulars.
Zeno furnishes us with an illustration of the fallibility of the indications of sense in his argument against Protagoras.
There can be little doubt that he attributes to the bad government of the Demos many evils which were really due to extraneous causes or to the mere fallibility of human nature.
He had to answer the Stoics and Cynics, preaching that all is worthless except Aretê; and the Sceptics, who dwelt on the fallibility of the senses, and the logical impossibility of knowledge.
It was the letter of a great chemist, who demonstrated therein the fallibility of all tests in relation to a certain poison.
It looks, at first glance, very like a rather specially fallible kind of fallibility with a taste for calling itself grand names.
But, among the well-established truths of which I never doubt, the fallibility of my own brain stands first.
Behold thefallibility of the human brain, and especially of George Eliot's.
It is a fresh proof of the fallibility of our impressions as to our own doings, that I would have confidently affirmed the name to be spelled Fedalma (as it ought to be) in my manuscript.
But these students of sacred records can always save the authority of Scripture by acknowledging the fallibility of their calculations.
Reason, Algazzali's doctrine of thefallibility of, ii.
Senses, Algazzali's doctrine of the fallibility of, ii.
Thus the allegation of miracles is discredited, both positively by the invariability of the order of nature, and negatively by the fallibility of human observation and testimony.
It is not the fallibility of human testimony, but the infallibility of natural order, which is now the ground of argument.
By acknowledging the fallibility of the spirits, Mr. Owen acknowledges that their testimony, in all cases, when we can have nothing else on which to rely, is perfectly worthless.
We do not assert or concede the fallibility of reason, intellect, or private judgment in matters which come within its own province or competence.
He was not prepared to throw aside the authority of the general consent of Christians, especially of the early fathers, as a thing of naught, but he was too conscious of the fallibility of all such authority to rest wholly upon it.
After many trials and dreadful temptations in which this poor, dependent brother of ours experienced the fallibility of all human strength, he was privileged with positive evidence of the resurrection of Christ from the dead.
But I dare not assume the place of judgment; and I know my own fallibilityso well that I have no need to accuse others.
The true lesson is the extreme fallibility of our moral judgments whenever we attempt to measure degrees of guilt.
He knows that even where he has committed no errors he must pay tribute to the fallibility of mankind, and that where he is in fault he must also pay tribute to his own.
The fallibility of a woman's body seems beyond disputing.
If it be true that man is the more logical, the fallibility of our own reasonings very frequently becomes painfully apparent even to ourselves, and they are therefore not the safest gauge by which to judge others.
But none of those papers point out so clearly the fallibility of the mortal or carnal mind, and the infallibility of the divine Mind, as does the teaching of Christian Science.
We have the testimony of all history to prove the extreme fallibility of conscience.
We have, I think, gone into this sufficiently in the previous chapter, and I shall confine my remarks to another aspect of the question--the fallibility of the moral consciousness.
It was proof of thefallibility of human testimony that Mrs. Pendleton had sincerely convinced herself that she was quite sure.
There is no good reason why the average man should set so much store by his own impressions of sense, when the fallibility of other witnesses is so readily demonstrable.
Still the position remains, that the highest degree of inspiration given to man has still suffered to exist along with it a portion of human fallibility and corruption.
On this subject I wish to express my sincere regret that I should have written so briefly in my essay as to lay myself open to be misunderstood to suggest our Lord's fallibility as a teacher.
This limitation of knowledge must not be confused with fallibility or liability to human delusion, because it was doubtless guarded by the Divine purpose which led Jesus Christ to take it upon Himself.
His error was one of mere fallibility in matters of intellectual and literary estimate.
It calls for a brief consideration, lest it should be thought to form a refutation of the correctness of our view: It comes from the acknowledged fallibility of the conscience.
Despite its fallibility every faculty of the soul carries the authority for its own psychical office--the intellect for knowledge, the sensibility for feeling, the will for choices.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fallibility" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
