This is the second time you’ve criticized what I’ve written due to some semantic quibble. Are you saying that being afraid is not an opinion? Are you asserting some weird distortion of the meaning of “accurate”?
(Just so you know: I agree that a bias not based on evidence could be accurate by accident, but I’m still going to call it inaccurate.)
Just so you know: I agree that a bias not based on evidence could be accurate by accident, but I’m still going to call it inaccurate
That’s exactly how I interpreted your message (modulo s/bias/opinion, I assume, bias by definition can’t be accurate, however heuristic can). My reply is an explanation of why I disagree that one should call that opinion inaccurate.
Well, we understand each other then. Maybe you would be happy (or less unhappy?) to know that everywhere in my draft I had written “inaccurate until substantiated” instead of “accurate” before I edited it out.
The edit wasn’t because I’m biased against statements that are not substantiated. But, really, I didn’t think the extra precision was worth the cost in simplicity.
Maybe you would be happy (or less unhappy?) to know that everywhere in my draft I had written “inaccurate until substantiated” instead of “accurate” before I edited it out.
Well, since the accuracy of a statement doesn’t causally depend on whether it’s substantiated, so you can’t flip the accuracy of a statement by finding substantiation, I don’t see how that helps.
This is the second time you’ve criticized what I’ve written due to some semantic quibble. Are you saying that being afraid is not an opinion? Are you asserting some weird distortion of the meaning of “accurate”?
(Just so you know: I agree that a bias not based on evidence could be accurate by accident, but I’m still going to call it inaccurate.)
That’s exactly how I interpreted your message (modulo s/bias/opinion, I assume, bias by definition can’t be accurate, however heuristic can). My reply is an explanation of why I disagree that one should call that opinion inaccurate.
Well, we understand each other then. Maybe you would be happy (or less unhappy?) to know that everywhere in my draft I had written “inaccurate until substantiated” instead of “accurate” before I edited it out.
The edit wasn’t because I’m biased against statements that are not substantiated. But, really, I didn’t think the extra precision was worth the cost in simplicity.
Well, since the accuracy of a statement doesn’t causally depend on whether it’s substantiated, so you can’t flip the accuracy of a statement by finding substantiation, I don’t see how that helps.
So “inaccurate until substantiated” isn’t good enough either.
How about “inaccurate unless possibly substantiated”?
Or, “inaccurate unless possibly substantiated or just happens to be true but is unverifiable”?
Do you really love accuracy this much?