Rawlsianism, though laudable in spirit, is too theoretical, and has distracted political philosophers from corrigible ills in the actual world.Other arguments feed Mr Sen's main themes.
This realm was accessible only to reason, and knowledge of it, once attained, was not tentative or corrigible but certain and irrefutable.
If anyone had the credentials to become a modest, corrigible A student — both in life and in literature — it was Elizabeth Hardwick, a beautiful, ambitious girl from a large Protestant family in Lexington, Kentucky.
She had written, "Taylor, appearing in book form for the first time, is even now a kind of A student, modest, corrigible, and traditional..
She had written, "Taylor, appearing in book form for the first time, is even now a kind of A student, modest, corrigible, and traditional...
It was sometimes objected that sensation statements are incorrigible whereas statements about brains are corrigible.
Critics argue that each element of this folk theory was originally based on empirical experience and is corrigible in the light of further experience.
Modal empiricists, in contrast, insist on the judgment-independent nature of metaphysical facts and deny that we have apriori access to them: our access to the nature of empirical objects, kinds, and properties is always based on and corrigible by experience (e.g., Putnam 1975; Stalnaker 2003; Williamson 2007; Yablo 2000).
Once again, physics was both fallible and corrigible.
Excluding naive realists, most scientists are fallibilists in Peirce's sense: scientific theories are hypothetical and always corrigible in principle.
Yet, scientific socialism was asserted by its followers to be a species of ultimate philosophical truth rather than, as Hook's pragmatic interpretation required, a set of fallible and corrigible hypotheses about the historical situation, including contemporaneous economic processes and their eventual outcomes.
