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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:37:32 GMT
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- Subject: Truth from error?
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- [from Ray Jackson (921222.0145)]
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- Gary Cziko, Bruce Nevin and others (various times)
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- >> Melius invenitur veritas ex errore quam ex ignorantia
- >>"It is easier to arrive at truth from error than from ignorance."
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- > ....make a revision? I would much prefer something like "get closer
- >to" or "draw nearer to" than "arrive at." Would something like
- >"advenitur" do it? This reflects my Popperian sympathies.--Gary
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- What about the quote by Francis Bacon (in English): "Truth emerges more
- readily from error than from confusion."
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- Regards,
- Ray
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