corrigible

How To Use corrigible In A Sentence

• But Mill's taking spontaneous judgments of sense and of perception as the starting point of inquiry while taking them also to be fallible and corrigible continues to be an example worthy of consideration as a philosophy that is at once empiricist in its framework yet non-foundationalist in its epistemology. John Stuart Mill
• Approximations may be corrigible, incorrigible in practice, or incorrigible in principle. The Unity of Science
• But then all claims to knowledge about the physical world are corrigible, and we must reach provisional conclusions about them on the evidence available to us.
• All the while, a hapless Maggie sits in the drivers' seat, helpless to stop the incorrigible bug from exercising its mighty will.
• I hear he is an incorrigible flirt.
• Governments are incorrigible optimists; they believe unabashed self-promotion will yield electoral dividends.
• A cat person, claws in velvet paws, he was malicious, vain, an incorrigible snob and social climber, who oiled his way, first, into the society of prominent persons, and then into personal prominence.
• “She shall tell you herself, thou incorrigible intermeddler in what concerns thee not, that it is her wish the ceremony should go on — Is it not, Isabella, my dear?” The Black Dwarf
• ---I was sent to Hennington Hills as banishment for being an incorrigible youth. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
• The Kenny Anthony I know is someone who would see his family deprived of their just due so the incorrigible among us would have nothing to whet their appetites with suggestions of nepotism.