Re: The Problem with Misinformation


Eric Landau wrote:
In article <1147382201.915958.114620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Wayne" <wjburrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

raija d wrote:

In bridge, leaving out an important part of an explanation *is*
misinformation. Dictionary is not needed.
When such omission is done intentionally as you advocated, the act is far
more serious in nature than plain MI by error, omission, or by lack of
common language.

A few minutes ago you were arguing that the explanation was accurate.
To be precise that noone was saying that it was inaccurate. Now you
are saying it is misinformation.

Forgive me if I cannot follow your reasoning.

It's not difficult. An explanation is misinformation if it is not
accurate and complete. If it is accurate but not complete, what's hard
to follow about "arguing that the explanantion was accurate [and] now...
saying it is misinformation"? That is perfectly consistent.

A mathematician would say that accuracy is "necessary but not
sufficient" to a complete explanation. That really shouldn't be too
hard to understand.


"accurate - careful, precise in exact conformity with a standard, or
with truth" Concise Oxford Dictionary.

You cannot have something that is "accurate but not complete". An
"accurate" explanation being in "precise conformity" with the
"standard" is necessarily "complete".

And at any rate a players range given he/she has passed is 0-10 when
one explains "natural" and there is no further qualification on the
range what is the missing information? There is none so it is
complete!

Wayne

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