On 9/6/05, Poor, Edmund W Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
- "accurate" (i.e. "I am personally convinced that Everything
this article says is true and correct."
I don't want to start a thread about epistemology, but personally there are NO articles where I am personally convinced that *everything* the article says is true and correct (and by "true" and "correct", I don't even mean in an ontological sense -- just the standard "this is what is generally thought to be true" subjective sense). Even on the topics I know very well -- even the articles I myself have written -- I would never consider my faith in an article higher than "This article contains nothing which I know to be blatantly incorrect, though it's always possible that various errors have snuck in one way or another." Typos, thinkos, misinformed sources, etc. all can lead to accidental and unintentional errors, much less ones deliberately introduced for whatever reason. But there's little on my watchlist which I think contains blatantly false information, which is something, at least... just my two cents.
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