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Early on in this book, I observed that one of the recurring questions about error is whether it is basically eradicable or basically inevitable. As a philosophical matter, this question is important, since (as I suggested earlier) the way we answer it says a lot about how we feel about being wrong. As a practical matter, it’s clear that the answer lies somewhere in between: many kinds of error can and should be curtailed, very few can be done away with entirely, and some we shouldn’t even want to get rid of.
Alex Morris
In order To eliminate error you have to acknowledge there will be errro
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
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