On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:12 PM, jayjg wrote:
People keep claiming that it's hard to source "obvious facts"; however, in practice that's almost never the case. Obvious facts are generally extremely easy to source.
A better and more important issue is that it's a waste of time to source obvious facts.
Not really. Once they're sourced, they're sourced forever, and inserting spurious fact templates gets more difficult. And every once in a while, you discover that what you thought was an "obvious fact" was slightly different from what you imagined, or more complex than at first glance, or even completely untrue.
Jay.