incorrigibility

He was first arrested in 1902 for incorrigibility and sent to a reformatory asylum.

But his default setting was stuck on eternal incorrigibility.

Charles Raff draws a distinction between three types of incorrigibility:

Type-2 and type-3 incorrigibility are logical converses, and therefore logically independent.

Presidential incorrigibility puts a heavy burden on the legislative and judicial branches to chart the country's course through a political storm.

I laughed at his incorrigibility.

His behavioral incorrigibility somehow made him even more endearing, because Ruth, despite his many personal faults, was never cruel.

So neither incorrigibility nor indubitability can provide us with an alternative form of foundationalism.

Alston (1971) analyses the differences between infallibility, incorrigibility, indubitability etc.

(Incorrigibility could be determined on the basis of repeated laziness, attempts to run away, or general bad conduct.)

His first detention came at the age of 9 for assault, shoplifting, larceny, attempted arson and "incorrigibility," according to corrections records.

"Menolly tells me that despite your incorrigibility on many other counts, you're not given to indiscriminate babbling.

We could define incorrigibility and indubitability thus:

In philosophy, incorrigibility is a property of a philosophical proposition, which implies that it is necessarily true simply by virtue of being believed.

Indeed, one of the many famous passages of the Inquiry was on the topic of the incorrigibility of human custom.

At this time, the school housed 564 boys, some for offences as minor as school truancy, running away from home, or "incorrigibility".

November 16, 1969: The first of several occasions when Davis's father turns Davis and his older brother over to juvenile authorities for incorrigibility.

Where there is indication of incorrigibility, because of the tremendous scandal given, I would most earnestly recommend total laicization."

In my view, once we have admitted that our beliefs about our sensory states are not infallible and may be false, incorrigibility would be a vice rather than a virtue.

Studies on psychiatric patients show that delusions vary in intensity and conviction over time, which suggests that certainty and incorrigibility are not necessary components of a delusional belief.

Told largely from Joe's conscience-stricken point of view, the film nonetheless centers on Frank's struggle with incorrigibility, his vain attempt to live according to his brother's wishes for him.

As to monastic prisons for members of religious orders, we find them recorded in decrees dealing with the incorrigibility of those who have lost the spirit of their vocation.

Mr. Collins's prison records show that at age 9 he was sent to reform school for assault, shoplifting, larceny, attempted arson, trespassing and what the authorities called overall incorrigibility.

In the end, the comet does not find the heart to destroy the world, which gives the play a positive ending, but also underlines the frustrating incorrigibility and stupidity of human beings.

After he served his sentence, Worthington returned to the United States, allegedly had an evangelical religious experience and became a Presbyterian Church minister, until his incorrigibility reasserted itself.