Cultural historian Scott Sandage argues that the concept of failure underwent a metamorphosis in the … See more

A commercial failure is a product or company that does not reach expectations of success.
Most of the items listed below had high expectations, significant financial investment… See more

A failing grade is a mark or grade given to a student to indicate that they did not pass an assignment or a class. Grades may be given as numbers, letters or other symbols.
By the year 1884, Mount Holyoke College was evalua… See more

Philosophers in the analytic tradition have suggested that failure is connected to the notion of an omission. In ethics, omissions are distinguished from acts: acts involve an agent doing something; omissions involve an agent's … See more

Scientific hypotheses can be said to fail when they lead to predictions that do not match the results found in experiments. Alternatively, experiments can be regarded as failures when they do not provide helpful information … See more