Faith in God, or a conviction that free will exists, or that life has meaning are not subject to revision in the light of empirical evidence.
It challenged received notions of knowledge, meaning and truth, and exceeded even the extreme empiricism of logical positivism by arguing that logic and maths, like factual statements, are open to revision in the light of experience.
Rabbinic studies," he adds, "are even more directly affected, and it is safe to say that nothing written on the sectarian movements of the last three centuries of the Second Temple can escape thorough revision in the light of the evidence now available and still to be published".
Finally, his hysterical notion of Al Qaeda as a terrifying Mafia-like octopus requires revision in the light of such recent political analyses as Jason Burke's "Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror," which persuasively presents Al Qaeda as a vague rubric for disparate terror groups rather than a discrete entity.
My interpretations of experience are fallible and subject to revision in the light of action and future experience.
In fact, nothing in science is final, unrevisable, and absolute: putative facts as well as theories are subject to revision in the light of further evidence and theory.
If the hypothesis is confirmed, it is regarded as true, but always tentatively, subject to revision in the light of further evidence and theory.
Finally, Austin issues the following warning in a footnote, two pages earlier: "Everything said in these sections is provisional, and subject to revision in the light of later sections" (1962b: 4 fn.1).
Either one lives entirely without opinions, while following probable impressions without assenting to them or one lives with opinions, but opinions that are held in a self-consciously tentative spirit and subject to revision in the light of new evidence.
Indeed a number of authors have recognised that these tests may need revision in the light of the ability to identify disease-causing microbes by sequence alone.
