Fallible
adjective
Able to make mistakes or be wrong.
Humans are fallible and therefore can't be perfect.
Often appears as...
- fallible human
- fallible memory
adjective
Able to make mistakes or be wrong.
Humans are fallible and therefore can't be perfect.
Often appears as...
- fallible human
- fallible memory
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Pro Tip 1/3Human Nature
Use 'fallible' to highlight human imperfection in behavior and judgment.
Even the best leaders are fallible sometimes.
Pro Tip 2/3Acknowledge Error
'Fallible' is often used to remind others that mistakes are a possibility.
Be patient with yourself; everyone is fallible.
Pro Tip 3/3System Vulnerability
Describe a process or system that could fail due to human error or flaws.
This safety protocol is fallible, we need a backup.
Pro Tip 1/3Human Nature
Use 'fallible' to highlight human imperfection in behavior and judgment.
Even the best leaders are fallible sometimes.
Pro Tip 2/3Acknowledge Error
'Fallible' is often used to remind others that mistakes are a possibility.
Be patient with yourself; everyone is fallible.
Pro Tip 3/3System Vulnerability
Describe a process or system that could fail due to human error or flaws.
This safety protocol is fallible, we need a backup.
Pro Tip 1/3Human Nature
Use 'fallible' to highlight human imperfection in behavior and judgment.
Even the best leaders are fallible sometimes.
Pro Tip 2/3Acknowledge Error
'Fallible' is often used to remind others that mistakes are a possibility.
Be patient with yourself; everyone is fallible.
Pro Tip 3/3System Vulnerability
Describe a process or system that could fail due to human error or flaws.
This safety protocol is fallible, we need a backup.
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Understanding Simulated...
statistically you're in the simulator one not the real one yeah yeah exactly so how do you know and it would be very hard I mean some have suggested sort of like in the matrix look for glitches like real universes don't have glitches but computers can have them but I said that which is because uh presumably a fallible entity programs that it could
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Peter Donnelly: How...
and a whole new way about thinking about disease therapies and preventative treatment and so on. So that's, as I said, the little diversion on my main love. Back to some of the more mundane issues of thinking about uncertainty. Here's another quiz for you -- now suppose we've got a test for a disease which isn't infallible, but it's pretty good.
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How we can find...
European intellectuals placed the human nature instead of God at the center of their view of the world. I believe something similar needs to happen with the universe of data. Now data are apparently treated like a God -- keeper of infallible truth for our present and our future.
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
the other thing that is I think something of a misconception regarding water buck is that they always run into water and when I was reading up on them the other day and none of these textbooks are infallible of course it said nothing about that but it did say
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On being wrong - Kathryn...
everybody in this room makes mistakes the human species in general is fallible okay fine but when it comes down to me right now to all the beliefs I hold here in the present tense suddenly all of this abstract appreciation of phal ability goes out the window
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The best teams have this...
narcissist how can you be humble and narcissistic they sound like opposites but they're not because narcissism is about believing that you're special and humility is about recognizing that you are fallible now for the narcissist in
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When technology...
think is quite powerful this idea that biology as you know miraculous as it is sustaining our bodies creating our experience of life it's also responsible for the way that we experience it it was miraculous and fallible it was my
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The gospel of doubt PIPE...
You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end, from a world where people spoke in tongues and saw suffering as a necessary act of God and took a text to be infallible truth.
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On being wrong PIPE Kathryn...
The human species, in general, is fallible -- okay fine. But when it comes down to me, right now, to all the beliefs I hold, here in the present tense, suddenly all of this abstract appreciation of fallibility
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Laura Schulz: The...
because left to our own devices, humans are fallible, we take shortcuts, we err, we make mistakes, we're biased, and in innumerable ways, we get the world wrong.
Video examples
Understanding Simulated...
statistically you're in the simulator one not the real one yeah yeah exactly so how do you know and it would be very hard I mean some have suggested sort of like in the matrix look for glitches like real universes don't have glitches but computers can have them but I said that which is because uh presumably a fallible entity programs that it could
Video examples
Peter Donnelly: How...
and a whole new way about thinking about disease therapies and preventative treatment and so on. So that's, as I said, the little diversion on my main love. Back to some of the more mundane issues of thinking about uncertainty. Here's another quiz for you -- now suppose we've got a test for a disease which isn't infallible, but it's pretty good.
Video examples
How we can find...
European intellectuals placed the human nature instead of God at the center of their view of the world. I believe something similar needs to happen with the universe of data. Now data are apparently treated like a God -- keeper of infallible truth for our present and our future.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
the other thing that is I think something of a misconception regarding water buck is that they always run into water and when I was reading up on them the other day and none of these textbooks are infallible of course it said nothing about that but it did say
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On being wrong - Kathryn...
everybody in this room makes mistakes the human species in general is fallible okay fine but when it comes down to me right now to all the beliefs I hold here in the present tense suddenly all of this abstract appreciation of phal ability goes out the window
Video examples
The best teams have this...
narcissist how can you be humble and narcissistic they sound like opposites but they're not because narcissism is about believing that you're special and humility is about recognizing that you are fallible now for the narcissist in
Video examples
When technology...
think is quite powerful this idea that biology as you know miraculous as it is sustaining our bodies creating our experience of life it's also responsible for the way that we experience it it was miraculous and fallible it was my
Video examples
The gospel of doubt PIPE...
You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end, from a world where people spoke in tongues and saw suffering as a necessary act of God and took a text to be infallible truth.
Video examples
On being wrong PIPE Kathryn...
The human species, in general, is fallible -- okay fine. But when it comes down to me, right now, to all the beliefs I hold, here in the present tense, suddenly all of this abstract appreciation of fallibility
Video examples
Laura Schulz: The...
because left to our own devices, humans are fallible, we take shortcuts, we err, we make mistakes, we're biased, and in innumerable ways, we get the world wrong.
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Quote examples
Carol S. Dweck
American Educator
As human beings, it is natural for us to pick up signals about what is valued in our environment and to want to embody those values. But being superior and infallible isn't something to strive for. Those values do not encourage people to do what is good for their organization in the long run.
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Grace Gealey
American Actress
I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.
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Kerry Bishe
New Zealander Actress
I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.
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Gail Simone
American Writer
As time goes on, at both DC and Marvel, characters notch up so many victories that we often start to think of them as infallible, which is kind of death for adventure fiction.
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Charlie Cox
English Actor
One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn't necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.
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Columbus Short
American Actor
I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.
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F. Sionil Jose
Filipino Writer
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
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Gavin Esler
Scottish Journalist
Nobody is infallible, but it is important to have trusted guides when it comes to information.
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Adam Conover
American Comedian
We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.
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Damian Lewis
English Actor
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Quote examples
Carol S. Dweck
American Educator
As human beings, it is natural for us to pick up signals about what is valued in our environment and to want to embody those values. But being superior and infallible isn't something to strive for. Those values do not encourage people to do what is good for their organization in the long run.
Quote examples
Grace Gealey
American Actress
I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.
Quote examples
Kerry Bishe
New Zealander Actress
I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.
Quote examples
Gail Simone
American Writer
As time goes on, at both DC and Marvel, characters notch up so many victories that we often start to think of them as infallible, which is kind of death for adventure fiction.
Quote examples
Charlie Cox
English Actor
One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn't necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.
Quote examples
Columbus Short
American Actor
I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.
Quote examples
F. Sionil Jose
Filipino Writer
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
Quote examples
Gavin Esler
Scottish Journalist
Nobody is infallible, but it is important to have trusted guides when it comes to information.
Quote examples
Adam Conover
American Comedian
We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.
Quote examples
Damian Lewis
English Actor
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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