(NLI FYI) TERMINOLOGY CHANGE I usually use the series: “Preventing Ignorance, Er

(NLI FYI)
TERMINOLOGY CHANGE
I usually use the series:
“Preventing Ignorance, Error, Bias, and Deceit”
But I’ve changed it to:
“Preventing Ignorance, Falsehood, Error, Bias, and Deceit”
And that’s because we can disambiguate error into the terms falsehood and error: with a falsehood as a problem of knowledge and an error as a problem of reasoning.
So one can simply not know something, one can be aware of something that’s false, one can err in the use of knowledge even if true, on can bias nearly anything, and one’s capacity for deceit is … well, extraordinary. 😉
I’ve struggled with this for a couple of years but at the level of precision of the legal work we’re doing, it’s become necessary.

Thanks.


Source date (UTC): 2024-05-29 15:27:31 UTC

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