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  • adjective That may be revised.

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  • adjective Able to be revised

Etymologies

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revise +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Just try to be realistic about your skills, abilities, temperament, and interests, and to set reasonable and revisable goals.

    Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: For Success, Embrace Your "Healthy" Narcissism 2010

  • My current, and revisable, answer is that at a very minimum, I think they need the kind of sophistication that appellate judges bring to their opinions, to be able to read and understand those opinions, and to be able to have a start on writing briefs to judges on these issues.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Efficient Market Hypothesis, a Bleg: 2009

  • My current, and revisable, answer is that at a very minimum, I think they need the kind of sophistication that appellate judges bring to their opinions, to be able to read and understand those opinions, and to be able to have a start on writing briefs to judges on these issues

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Efficient Market Hypothesis, a Bleg: 2009

  • The findings on these topics are, of course, fallible and revisable.

    China's agricultural history Daniel Little 2009

  • This, however, is a mistake; it is not easy to see how the distinction between an exact and definitive versus a reliable but revisable account maps on to the distinction between a literal versus a metaphorical account.

    Plato's Timaeus Zeyl, Donald 2009

  • The findings on these topics are, of course, fallible and revisable.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • A claim might be in fact analytic and justifiable independently of experience, but nevertheless perfectly revisable in the light of it.

    The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Rey, Georges 2008

  • Here, once again, Quine invoked his metaphor of the web of belief, claiming that sentences are more or less revisable, depending upon how “peripheral” or “central” their position is in the web.

    The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction Rey, Georges 2008

  • If the church is fallible through-and-through, then no claim about what being faithful to the apostolic witness consists in can be accounted binding on all believers, for any such claim would have to be accounted revisable in principle.

    Dr Witt responds at last Mike L 2007

  • If the church is fallible through-and-through, then no claim about what being faithful to the apostolic witness consists in can be accounted binding on all believers, for any such claim would have to be accounted revisable in principle.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Mike L 2007

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