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To: Doctor Raoul
"...contains far too many errors of fact"

UHHhhh...

What other kind ARE there??

Errors of FICTION??

23 posted on 03/07/2007 10:07:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
What other kind ARE there??

Errors of interpretation, for one. When my students read Chaucer and think that the knight being described as "meek as a maid" means meek as a servant (instead of a young girl), they have not made an error in fact, but one of interpretation.

Errors of interpretation or understanding (see almost any layman's explanation of the Schroedinger's Cat thought-experiment as evidence) are not as egregious as errors of fact. A layman might easily miss the significance of a detail that might mean much more to a specialist, but to get a basic (and easily verifiable) fact wrong shows a carelessness that is much worse...

35 posted on 03/07/2007 2:54:09 PM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwæt! Lãr biþ mæst hord, soþlïce!)
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