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- From: bnevin@CCB.BBN.COM (Bruce E. Nevin)
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- Subject: Melius ex errore
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:15:53 GMT
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- [From: Bruce Nevin (Thu 921217 12:25:14)]
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- For when PCT becomes part of the academic establishment, here is
- a nifty motto, perhaps to be graven over the gothic entrace to PCTU,
- lifted (I am told) from the medieval schoolmen:
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- Melius invenitur veritas ex errore quam ex ignorantia
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- "It is easier to arrive at truth from error than from ignorance."
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- The communication quandary is how to get an audience from the
- confort of vested ignorance (ignoring) to the productive
- discomfort of error.
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- Bruce
- bn@bbn.com
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