Those who criticize the current oral history projects (and other such projects) because of the fallibility of individual memory miss the point.
Some characteristic later themes, such as the fallibility of individual judgments and the rejection of correspondence accounts of truth, here make an early appearance; and Bradley's philosophical style — often obscure, typically disdainful of illustrative example, and by late twentieth-century standards uncomfortably literary — can be seen in high relief.
Paley's unwavering trust in the power of the collective was essential for her activism, as her clear-eyed affection for the foibles and fallibility of the individual was essential for her art, and it is a delight to encounter both Paleys in a single volume, where they can usefully converse with each other across genres.
When we blindly believe in the infallibility of our nation, we forget the inherent fallibility of all of us as individuals.
Given the financial system's fallibility, regulation is bound to be fallible too.
These explanatory projects highlight individual's relation to aspects of her real-world environment and her fallibility about those relations, and thus naturally suggest an externalist approach to intentionality.
This illustrates a valuable approach to investigating the personal and social determinants of a health service use, which addresses limitations evident in previous research: the fallibility of self-report data versus the lack of individual-level data in administrative datasets.
His fundamental argument, that relativism implies individual infallibility in moral judgments, whereas true liberalism depends on an acceptance of fallibility, is one that would hardly work on the average neocon chat show.
Their vocal chords are going to have to be exercised even more if Research UK takes over grants to universities from Hefce – both within individual universities and, critically, to ensure the criteria for distributing grants recognise how social science is done, its impact and the fallibility of simply counting articles published in peer-reviewed journals with bibliometrics.
