Yeah, I agree in this case there are some contradictory claims but I don’t think they matter that much overall. That’s because I think the line between lying and deception is not that sharp and there’s an intuitively compelling sense in which the people revealing to you 100 heads or 100 tails out of 510 heads in 1000 tosses are “lying”, or at least “being deceptive”. That’s the bigger problem, and the fact that they might mix this up with conflicting claims about e.g. whether the 758th coin came up heads or tails is in my opinion not too important.
As for quoting me, you can do that whenever you want and however you want. You can attribute it to me or not, you can paraphrase it or not, et cetera. Totally up to you.
Yeah, I agree in this case there are some contradictory claims but I don’t think they matter that much overall. That’s because I think the line between lying and deception is not that sharp and there’s an intuitively compelling sense in which the people revealing to you 100 heads or 100 tails out of 510 heads in 1000 tosses are “lying”, or at least “being deceptive”. That’s the bigger problem, and the fact that they might mix this up with conflicting claims about e.g. whether the 758th coin came up heads or tails is in my opinion not too important.
As for quoting me, you can do that whenever you want and however you want. You can attribute it to me or not, you can paraphrase it or not, et cetera. Totally up to you.